 | Joseph Priestley - 1780 - 494 páginas
...difference, that here there is not only a succession but an increase of new objects and new difficulties. 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 and mountains seem the last ; But those... | |
 | 1828 - 454 páginas
...does deplore— His heaven is still as distant as before. POPE. So pleased at first the towering Alpe 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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 páginas
...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...seem the last-: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | 1820 - 190 páginas
...that breaks, For other's 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,...eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds are mountains seem thelast: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 páginas
...Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; Hut ir.ore advanc'd, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd...seem the last : But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes... | |
 | 1821 - 656 páginas
...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 ;... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 páginas
...So pleas'd at 6rst the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er ihe vales, and seem to tread the' sky : Tu' 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 ; Tit' increasing prospect... | |
 | 1821 - 662 páginas
...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, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 páginas
...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 pleas'd...seem the last; But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes;... | |
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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 attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing... 
