 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 alrain'd , we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 494 pages
...pleas'd, at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the skjr. Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But these attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...PLEASED at the first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; Til' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds...seem the last. But, those attain'd, we tremble to surrey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand' ring eyes;... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And die first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing laboars of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring ey.es, Hills peep o'er hills,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...11 r • At first the towering Alp» we tff, Mount o'ci the rocki, and icera to tread the fit '. Thf eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the (aft; But these attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lehgth'ned way > Th1 increasing... | |
 | John Parkhurst - Aramaic language - 1807 - 890 pages
...Alps we trr, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky. Th' eternal snows appear alre.-d" part, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey 7/Jf sfroioitig Ijkvurt nf tb' lerivib:nd ivcrf: Tirmcreasin^ prospect //'r.-j our wand'riurcyM, Hills... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...pleas'd at first the tow 'ring Alps we try, tS.-' 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 Hut those atain'd, we tremhle to survey, The growing lahours of the lengthen'd way; 30 Tli' increasing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...New distant scenes of endless science rise ! •So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, Monnt o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ! The' eternal...attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthcn'd way ; The' increasing prospect tires onr wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...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 attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'«! way ; Th' increasing... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 attain'd, we... | |
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While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! 
