 | Horace - 1812 - 198 pages
...surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow 'ring Alps we try, 225 Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky! Th' eternal snows appear already past, . And the fiist clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...surprise, New distant seenes of endless seienee rise ! So pJeas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; . Th' eternal suows appear already past, And the first elouds and mountains seem the last: $nt. those attain'd, we... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...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'...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. rork.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 262 pages
...clouds and mountains feem the laft. The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increafing profpect tires our wand'ring eyes; ?Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arife., POP-!-. SECTION IV. Cruelty to Brutes cenfured, \ I WOULD not enter on my lift of friends,... | |
 | 1816 - 576 pages
...v\ ell may «e exclaim with Mr. Pope, while we tread these regions, that we Mount o'er the vales, & seem to tread the sky Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first ilondsci mountains se em the last But, those attained, we tremble to survey The crowing labours of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pages
...So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vale*, and seem to tread the sky ; The' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the laat : But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1780 - 494 pages
...So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky : The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds...to 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-*... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...ne'er exhaust! •» THOMSON. No. LXXVI. ON MOUNTAINS. So pleased at first the towering Alps we try. Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ;...first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But, those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way, Th' increasing prospect tires... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...surprise. Far distant views of endless science rise ! So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clonds and mountains seem the last. VOL. LVTL NO. CCCLII1. But those attain'd, we tremble to survey... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...So pleased at first the towering Alpe 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 attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way ; The increasing prospect... | |
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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! 
