 Where the evening gilds the tide, How close and small the hedges lie! What streaks of meadows cross the eye! A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem; So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd through hope's deluding glass; As...  Letters, 1784-1789 - Side 220av John Wilkes - 1805Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Bell - 1799 - 436 sider
...little distant dangers seeml no So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass l As yon' summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which, to those who journey near, 115 Barren, brown, and rough appear; Still we tread the same coarse way ; The present's still a cloudy... | |
 | 1800 - 322 sider
...little distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glasr; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the...who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear: Grass and flowers Quiet treads, On the meads and mountain-heads, Still we tread the same coarse way,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 sider
...poem on the Ruins of Rome deserves a perusal. Dodsley's Miscell. vol. i. page 78. His Fleece, - which A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little distant...the air, Which to those, who journey near, Barren, and brown, and rough appear, Still we tread the same coarse way, The Present's still a cloudy day.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 sider
...Rome deserves •a perusal. Dodsley's Misccll. vol. i. page- 78. His J-'ft.rcr, A step, moth inks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem...the air, Which to those, who journey near, Barren, and brown, and rough appear, Still we tread the same coarse way, The Present's still a cloudy day.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 sider
...deserves a perusal. Dodsley's Miscell. vol. i. page 78, His Fleece, . which A step, methinks, may pas? the stream, So little distant dangers seem ; So we...the air, Which to those, who journey near, Barren, and brown, and rough appear, Still we tread the same coarse way, The Present's still a cloudy day.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sider
...the future's face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glass As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colors less the mystic characters I see, Wrought in each flower, inscrib'd onev'rv trrr • B ln ELE tlje same coarse way ; The present 's still a cloudy day. O may I with myself agree, And never covet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 sider
...Ethiop's arm. See on the mountain's southern side, Where the prospect opens wide, Where the evening gilds the tide; How close and small the hedges lie!...the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, hrown, and rough appear; Still we tread the same coarse way, The present's still a cloudy day. O may... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 sider
...mistake the future's face Ey'd through Hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clitd iu colours of the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear: Grass and flowers Quiet treads, On the meads and mountain-beads, Still we tread the same coarse way,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 414 sider
...Ethiop's arm. See on the mountain's southern side, Where the prospect opens wide, Where the evening gilds the tide, How close and small the hedges lie...who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear ; l we tread the same coarse way ; The present's still a cloudy day. O may I with myself agree, And... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 sider
...stream ; So little distant dangers seem. So we mistake the future's face , Eyed through Hope's delusive glass ! As yon summits soft and fair , Clad in colours...air , Which , to those who journey near , Barren, and brown, and rough appear; Still we tread the same coarse way ; The present's still a cloudy day... | |
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