 | 1821 - 662 pages
...thousand blanks to a prize are forgotten in trying the " towering Alps'" of fortune, where always " The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last." But there is a moral motive for adventuring, highly in favour of trying one's fortune in the lottery ;... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...So pleas'd at 6rst the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er ihe vales, and seem to tread the' sky : Tu' 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 ; Tit' increasing prospect... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...advanc'd, beheld, 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 4.0 tread the skj ; Tb' eternal snows appear already- past, And the first clouds and mountains seem... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 pages
...same may be observed of the word prospect i» the last line of the following passage : So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales,...to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect — tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o.er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 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,...survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes; Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. POPE... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 pages
...ndvanc'd, behold, with strange surprise, New ilist:.ni scenes ot endless science rise ! So, pleas'd at first the tow-ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales,...first clouds and mountains seem the last : But. those ittnir.'ii, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengihcn'd way; h-mcreasmg prospect tires... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 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,...first clouds and mountains seem the last • But those atlaiu'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen 'd way; Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...appears evidently to have been suggested by the following one in the Works of Drummond, p. 38. 4to. Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...appears evidently to have been suggested by the following one in the Works of Drnmmond, p. 38. 4to. Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...So pleased 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 clouds...survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; The' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise !... | |
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While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise! 
