 | 1798 - 618 sider
...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
...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 o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; Th' eternal snows appear already pait, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But those... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...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... | |
 | James Wilson - 1804 - 494 sider
...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... | |
 | 1805 - 590 sider
...Italian language, and whose auxVvot vi •to us. THE GLACIERS. " So pleas'd it 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 sider
...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... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 sider
...others' woe down virtue's manly cheeks. DARWIN. ASCENDING THE ALPS. 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 and mountains seem the last. But, those... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 sider
...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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 sider
...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; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those... | |
 | 1806 - 408 sider
...with strange surprize 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 die first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those... | |
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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! 
