 Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect wider spreads, Adds a thousand...  The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical ... - Page 200by John Armstrong, John Dyer, George Gilfillan, Matthew Green - 1858 - 281 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1799 - 436 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, 3 5 And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect...I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies helow I No clouds, no vapours, intervene , But the gay the open scene Does the face of Nature show... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...mountains round, (unhappy fate, Sooner or later, of all height !) Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. • . • • Now I gain the mountain's broW," What a landscape lies below! No clouds, no vapors intervene,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...mountains round , unhappy fate ! Sooner or later of all height ! Withdraw their summits Trom the skies j And lessen , as the others rise ! Still the prospect...meads , Still it widens , widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now I gain the mountains brow; What a landscape lies below ! No clouds , no vapours... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...mountains round, (unhappy fate, Sooner or later, of all height!) Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, •Withdraw their .summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise; Still the prospect...still, .•."*, < And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow; What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But... | |
 | John Aikin - Books and reading - 1806 - 346 pages
...circumstances of generality ; such as those on ascending a steep and lofty hill, in the following lines : Still the prospect wider spreads, Adds a thousand...meads, Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a prospect lies below ! &c. It is not necessary... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies,,, And lessen as the others rise ; Still the prospect...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow ; What a landskip lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...mountains round, (unhappy fate, Sooner or later, of all height!) Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect...meads, Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill, Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now, 1 gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene j But... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...mountains round, (unhappy fate, Sooner or later, of all height!) Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise: Still the prospect...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene. But... | |
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