 | 1821 - 656 pages
...thousand blanks to a prize are forgotten in trying the " towering Alps'" of fortune, where always " The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last." But there is a moral motive for adventuring, highly in favour of trying one's fortune in the lottery ;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...behind ; But more advanc'd, beheld, 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 4.0 tread the skj ; Tb' eternal snows appear already- past, And the first clouds and mountains seem... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 pages
...province. The same may be observed of the word prospect i» the last line of the following passage : So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount...But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect — tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o.er... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...behind; But more advanc'd, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount...But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes; Hills peep o'er hills,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 pages
...{ But, more ndvanc'd, behold, with strange surprise, New ilist:.ni scenes ot endless science rise ! So, pleas'd at first the tow-ring Alps we try, Mount...first clouds and mountains seem the last : But. those ittnir.'ii, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengihcn'd way; h-mcreasmg prospect tires... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...behind ; But more advanc'd, behold, with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So, pleas'd, at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...appears evidently to have been suggested by the following one in the Works of Drnmmond, p. 38. 4to. Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first...But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, 230 Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er... | |
 | 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...But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, 230 Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er... | |
 | 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...But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; The' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills,... | |
 | 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...But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; The increasing prospect tries our wandering eyes, Hills pee)) o'er... | |
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While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But more... 
