 | 1822
...the only course of happiness : " So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the voles, and seem to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear...first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; The increasing prospect... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 Seiten
...appears evidently to have been suggested by the following one in the Works of Drummond, p. 38. 4to. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822
...appears evidently to have been suggested by the following one in the Works of Drnmmond, p. 38. 4to. 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... | |
 | 1822
...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 Platts - 1822 - 764 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 383 Seiten
...the word prospect i» 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 past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 304 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 373 Seiten
...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 past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the lost : But those... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
...VARIATIONS. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps to try, Fill'd with ideas of fair Italy, The 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...VARIATIONS. Ver. 225. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps to try, Fill'd with ideas of fair Italy, The 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... | |
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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,... 
