 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...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 134by Joseph Warton - 1806 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...with strange surprise. Far distant views of endless science rise ! So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread...Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clonds and mountains seem the last. VOL. LVTL NO. CCCLII1. But those attain'd, we tremble to survey... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1780 - 494 pages
...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 pages
...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 - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...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 past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But those... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...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 - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...; Hut ir.ore advanc'd, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount...But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes ; llilis peep o'er... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, M(.ut)t o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; TV eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds...survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing prospect tire? our wand'rins; eyes ; Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. TOPE.... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...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 pages
...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 ;... | |
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