 | Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 928 pages
...contrast their colossean proportions with the diminutive stature of every living thing. " Tho' pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, " Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; " I'll' eternal suows appear already past, " And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: "... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 pages
...with strange surprise. New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleas'd at ficst the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; TV eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleas'dat first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread...And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: Hut those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way ; Th' increasing... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 pages
...with strange surprise / New distant scenes of endless«cience rise! So, pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread...snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountams seem the last; But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 pages
...So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps wo 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 attained, we tremble to survey The growing labour of the lengthened way, The increasing prospect tires... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...with 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 sn«ws appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But, those attain'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...behind ; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! next him, who to these shades retires, Whom nature charms, ! The eternal snows appear already pass'd, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...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 pasf , And the first clouds* and mountains' seem the last* ; Buf , those attain'd', we tremble to survey... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...wonders far less than that of the dwarf moss to the stately cedar. " So, pleas'd at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; The eternal SDOWS appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last But those attainM,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 pages
...with strange surprise ti&\b 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...appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains see'ni the last i But, those attainM, we tremble to survey Tla; growing labours of the lengthen'd way... | |
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In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. 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! 
