 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise I So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, .Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread...Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clonds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...sträng« surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! .So pleas'«) at first the tow'riug Alps we try. Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; Т1Г eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: Rut, those... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ! The' eternal suows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount 0*cr the vales, and seem lo tread the siy; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem theList. Hut, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengtnen'd way; Th' increasing... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...observed of the word prospect, in the last line but one of the following passage : So pleas'd at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and...prospect || tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er bills, and Alps on Alps arise. Rule VII. A simile in poetry ought always to be read in a lower tone... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...surprise Mew distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, 225 Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ;...lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Mills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps- arise ! A perfect judge will read each work... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...surprise new distant scenes of endless science rise! so pleas'd at first the towring Alps we try, 225 mount oe'r the vales, and seem to tread the sky !...survey the growing labours of the lengthen'd way; 230 th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, hills peep o'er hills and Alps on Alps arise... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...mountain he do find More heights before him than he left behind. Drum. p. 38, 4to. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and...But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labour of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wond'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...surprise new distant scenes of endless science rise ! so pleas'd at first the towring Alps we try, 225 mount oe'r the vales, and seem to tread the sky !...the last: but those attain'd, we tremble to survey Ihe growing labours of the lengthen'd way; 230 th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, liills... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...distant scenes of endless science rise 1 So pfeas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'ertbe vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows...But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labour of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wond'ring eyes. Hills peep o'er hills,... | |
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While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more... 
