 | 1798 - 618 sider
...Headley : the resemblance is in the celebrated Simile of the Alps : " So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; TV eternal snows appear already past, And thje first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But, those... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 sider
...served of 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 pait, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The... | |
 | 1802 - 442 sider
...181, and Skakef" peare's Venus and Adonis, 1. 828. C» Thus Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 2z5. " 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... | |
 | James Wilson - 1804 - 494 sider
...leads us, we may well adopt the language of the philosophick poet ; So pleas'd, at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the skjr. Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 sider
...orer-arch'd cmbow'r, to thick bestrewn Abject and lost lay these. Milton. SO So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the <kv. Pope. At into air the purer spirit* flow, And sep'rate from their kindred dregs below, Sf flew... | |
 | 1806 - 408 sider
...with strange surprize 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 die first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 sider
...delivered this insinuation of a failure of poetical abilities. 17. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky j Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 sider
...others' 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, and seem to tread the sky ; Til' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last. But, those... | |
 | John Parkhurst - 1807 - 890 sider
...4. Montis anhcli. Clautlitin De Rapt. Pros. III. 384, So pleas'd at lir»t the tow'ring Alps we trr, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky. Th' eternal snows appear alre.-d" part, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 sider
...behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise I So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, .Mount...Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clonds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of... | |
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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. 
