 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 페이지
...rise ! So pleas 'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, 223 Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread t!ie sky ; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the...to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; z5o Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!... | |
 | 1798 - 618 페이지
...believe, has been noticed by Mr. 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 페이지
...little more force than common to the word province. The same may be ob served of the word prospect in the last line of the following passage: So pleas'd...to tread the sky; Th' eternal snows appear already pait, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The... | |
 | 1802 - 442 페이지
...Venus and Adonis, 1. 828. C» Thus Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 2z5. " So pleas'd 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 and mountains seem the last : But, those... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 페이지
...surprise, Naw distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, 22S Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky !...to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; 230 Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 페이지
...behind; But, more arlvanc'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 alrain'd , we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | James Wilson - 1804 - 494 페이지
...paths, through which this science 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 페이지
...Yeiuce, written in the 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,...to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way : Th'encreasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes; Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. POH.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 페이지
...th' Etrumn shades Hi$h 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 페이지
...not published when Dr. Warburton delivered this insinuation of a failure of poetical abilities. 17. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount...survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th' * Ver. 196. Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes; Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps... | |
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