 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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 first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; z5o Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | 1798 - 618 pages
...: 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 - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...the word prospect in the last line of the following 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 pait, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But those... | |
 | 1802 - 442 pages
...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...first clouds and mountains seem the last : But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, 22S 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 attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; 230 Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 494 pages
...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 these attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 to tread the sky; Th' eternal snows appear already past , And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 590 pages
...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, and seem to tread the sky . Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...11 r • At first the towering Alp» we tff, Mount o'ci the rocki, and icera to tread the fit '. Thf eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the (aft; But these attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lehgth'ned way > Th1 increasing... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...woe down virtue's manly cheeks. DARWIN. ASCENDING THE ALPS. PLEASED at the first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; Til' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last. But, those... | |
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While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise. So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales,... 
