 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleas'dat first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and...And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: Hut those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way ; Th' increasing... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 252 pages
...advanc'd, behold, with strange surprise / New distant scenes of endless«cience rise! So, pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and...snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountams seem the last; But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...advanc'd, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise 1 So, pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and...attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes; Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps wo try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labour of the lengthened way, The increasing prospect tires... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow' ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; Th' eternal sn«ws appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But, those attain'd,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...behold', with strange surprise', New distant scenes of endless science rise* ! So', pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try', Mount o'er the vales',...tread the sky*-, Th' eternal snows appear already pasf , And the first clouds* and mountains' seem the last* ; Buf , those attain'd', we tremble to survey... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...natural wonders far less than that of the dwarf moss to the stately cedar. " So, pleas'd at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; The eternal SDOWS appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last But those attainM,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So, pleased at first, the towering es, Whom nature charms, ! The eternal snows appear already pass'd, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1832 - 260 pages
...advanc'd, behold with strange surprise ti&\b distant scenes of endless science rise ! So, pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try; Mount o'er the vales, and...appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains see'ni the last i But, those attainM, we tremble to survey Tla; growing labours of the lengthen'd way... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...about ends. Selden. $£ S3T ^ -fc So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vale!, and seem to tread the sky ; Th' eternal snows appear...first clouds and mountains seem the last : But, those altain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way) TV increasing prospect tires... | |
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While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more... 
