 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...appears evidently to have been suggested by the following one in the Works of Drummond, p. 38. 4to. Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first...eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! -y A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ : 234 Survey... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...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...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. POPE... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 pages
...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 past, And the first...to 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.... | |
 | 1822 - 880 pages
...So plcas'd at first the towering Alps we fry» 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 tries our wandering eyes, Hills pee)) o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ! The' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds...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 !... | |
 | 1822 - 666 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...attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengtben'd way ; Tu' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes; Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...! 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 atlaiu'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen 'd way; Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pages
...blanks to a prize are forgotten in trying the " towering Alps'' of fortune, where always " The rternal snows appear already past. And the first clouds and mountains seem the last." But there is a moral motive for adventuring, highly in famir of trying one's fortune in the lottery; how... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...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 past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the lost : But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing... | |
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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! 
