| John Bell - 1796 - 524 sider
...Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth, we tempt the heights of arts, 220 While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views...surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas 'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, 223 Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread t!ie sky ;... | |
| 1798 - 618 sider
...believe, has been noticed by Mr. Headley : the resemblance is in the celebrated Simile of the Alps : " So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; TV eternal snows appear already past, And thje first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But, those... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - 424 sider
...province. The same may be ob served of the word prospect in the last line of the following passage: So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount...to tread the sky; Th' eternal snows appear already pait, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 sider
...Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220 While from the bounded level of our mind Short views...; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, Naw distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, 22S Mount... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts , In fearlessyouth we tempt the heights of arts, While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take ,nor see the lengths behind; But, more arlvanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at... | |
| James Wilson - 1804 - 494 sider
...paths, through which this science leads us, we may well adopt the language of the philosophick poet ; So 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 sider
...th' Etrumn shades Hi$h orer-arch'd cmbow'r, to thick bestrewn Abject and lost lay these. Milton. SO So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the <kv. Pope. At into air the purer spirit* flow, And sep'rate from their kindred dregs below, Sf flew... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 sider
...not published when Dr. Warburton delivered this insinuation of a failure of poetical abilities. 17. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky j Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those... | |
| 1806 - 408 sider
...again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights. of Arts, While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind. But more advanced, behold with strange surprize New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 sider
...surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ( So pleas'd at first the tow 'ring Alps we try, tS.-' Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky !...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... | |
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