 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 ページ
...take, nor see the length behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise, Far distant views of endless science rise! So pleased at first the towering...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... | |
 | Edward Parry - 1847 - 378 ページ
...Aran y Mawddu and Aran Penllyn ; and in the distant rises Cader Idris with pre-eminent grandeur. " 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 clouds and mountains seem the last " During... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 ページ
...Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, 220 While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But more advanc'd, behold, with strange surprize, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So, pleas'd at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 ページ
...arts, 29C While from the hounded level of our mind, AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. Bat more advanced, hehold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless...mountains seem the last : But, those attain'd, we tremhle to survey The growing lahours of the lengthen'd way : 231 The increasing prospect tires our... | |
 | 1848 - 622 ページ
...following, yet is its beauty perhaps so very familiar that we scarcely notice its simple grandeur. So pleased at first the towering Alps we try Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky. and so on to the end. How true to nature in all its parts is that exquisite passage. In no quarter... | |
 | William Sloan Graham - 1849 - 302 ページ
...uppermost short cloak was a bare thread." CHAUCEB, modernized. In contrast with — " So pleased in youth, the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and...to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last. But these attained, we tremble to survey The... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - 1849 - 262 ページ
...again.-/ Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 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 ! So pleased at first... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 ページ
...more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So, plt-n^ed at first, the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the...And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: Bat, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way : 230 The increasing... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 ページ
...FIBED at first sight, with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth, we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views...to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But, those attained, we tremble to survey... | |
 | 1851 - 496 ページ
...PROGRESSIVE. FIRED, at first sight, with what the muse iinj In fearless youth, we tempt the heights of arts, While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views...to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But, those attained, we tremble to survey... | |
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Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 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... 
