| British poets - 1822 - 276 ページ
...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 - 880 ページ
...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... | |
| 1822 - 666 ページ
...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 ページ
...! 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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 ページ
...tread the sky ; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds aud mountains seem the Ut : is presence many a sign Still following thee, still compassing thee lengtheu'd way; Th' increasing prospect tires our wandering eye*, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 ページ
...! 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.... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 682 ページ
...myself." " 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...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."... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 ページ
...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...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 !... | |
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