 | Thomas Curtis - 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 - 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
...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',...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
...to these 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,... | |
 | 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 - 1990 - 290 pages
...more 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 pages
...more advanc'd, behold with strange Surprize New, distant scenes of endless Science rise! So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we 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... | |
 | David Hirson - 2001 - 372 pages
...series of peaks, the scaling of which, if one has the courage, continues for the rest of one's life: The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way; The 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 advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise! 
