 | David Lewis - 1726 - 350 pages
...widens, widens ftill, And finks the newly-rifen Hill. Now, I gain the Mountain's Brow, What a Landskip lies below! No Clouds, no Vapours intervene, But the gay, the open Scene Does the Face of Nature mow* In all the Hues of Heaven's Bow! And, fwelling to embrace the Light, Spreads around beyond the... | |
 | David Lewis - 1726 - 346 pages
...Wider and wider fpreads the Vale; As Circles on a fmooth Canal : The Mountains round, unhappy Fate, Sooner or later, of all Height! Withdraw their Summits from the Skies, And leflen as the others rife ; Still the Profped wider fpreads, Adds a thoufand Woods and Meads, Still... | |
 | 1758 - 352 pages
...widens, widens ftill, And finks the newly-rifen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landlkip lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open fcene Does the face of nature (how, In all the hues of heaven's bow I And, fwelling to embrace the... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 pages
...widens, widens ftill, And finks the newly-rifen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landfkip lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open fcene Does the face of nature fhow, In all the hues of heaven's bow ! And, fwelling to embrace the... | |
 | John Dyer - 1761 - 196 pages
...widens, widens ftill. And finks the newly-rifen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landfldp lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open fcene Does the face of nature fhow, In all the hues of heaven's bow .' And, fwelling to embrace the... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 392 pages
...widens ftill, And fmks the newly-rifen hill. Now, Now, I gain the mountain's brow, "What a landfkip lies below ! .ยป No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open fcene Does the face of nature fhow, . ' In all the hues of heaven's bow 1 And, fwelling to embrace... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 356 pages
...widens, widens ftill, And finks the newly-rifen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landfkip lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open fcene Does the face of nature fhow, In all the hues of heaven's bow ? And, fwelling to .embrace die... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 702 pages
...widens, widens ftill, And finks the newly-rifen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landfkip lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene; But the gay, the open fcene, Does the face of Nature fhow, In all the hues of Ueaven'9 tiow ! And, And, fwelling to embrace... | |
 | 1782 - 402 pages
...widens, widens ftill, And finks the newly-rifen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, <i What a landfkip lies below !. No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open fcene .' Does the face of nature mow, In all the hues -of heaven's bow ! And, fwelling to embrace the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...widens, widens ftill, And finks the newly-rifen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow ; What a landfkip lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open fcene Does the face of nature fhow, In all the hues of heaven's bow ! And, fwelling to embrace the... | |
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Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still... 
