 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...rise ! " So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try. Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread th* sky; Th' eternal snows appear already past. And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; 75 But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengthen'«! way ; Th' incieasing... | |
 | James Holman - Europe - 1834 - 386 pages
...scenery, amidst which we had been for some time making our progress. " pleas'd at first, the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread...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... | |
 | English essays - 1834 - 724 pages
...and other hills beyond it, and continues to travel on as before." " So pleas' d at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky. The eternal snows appear already past, And the first woods and mountains seem the last ; But, these... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...try, 225 Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already pass'd, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last :...But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengthen'd way : 230 The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes; Hills peep o'er... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...advanced, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleased at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and...first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengthened way ; ay> Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Surprize New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise ! So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try, 225 Mount o'er the Vales, and seem to tread the Sky; Th'...survey The growing Labours of the lengthen'd Way, 230 Th' increasing Prospect tires our wandring Eyes, Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...advanced, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleased at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky. 'I'll' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But those... | |
 | Denis Lane - Modernism (Literature) - 1990 - 290 pages
...advanc'd, 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, and seem to tread the sky. Th'eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread...first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way, 230 Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - Philosophy of nature - 1999 - 180 pages
...Pope adopts an alpine context to explain the dangerous inaccuracy of such intellectual presumption: Th' Eternal Snows appear already past, And the first Clouds and Mountains seem the last: But those attain 'd, we tremble to survey The growing Labours of the lengthen'd Way, Th' increasing Prospect... | |
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While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more... 
