 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 the prospect wider spreads, Adds a thousand...  Bell's Edition - Page 110by John Bell - 1799Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate 1 Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, tears; But fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's...move when fair Belinda fails? Not half so fix'd the Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene ; But... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate, Sooner or later, of all height ! Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise. Still the prospect...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow; What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapour? intervene ; But... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospeet sample of the best : No dainty flower or herb that...ground, No arboret with painted blossoms drest, An Now I "gain the mountain's brow, What a landseape lies below ! No elouds, no vapours intervene ; But... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene ; But... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate, Sooner or later, o£ all height, Withdraw their summits fron^the sides, aleful hour, When first ambition struck at regal power ; And thus polluting honour in i ¡md meads ; Stili it widens, widens still, Aud sinks» the newly risen hill. Now I g«iu the mount,-!... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 442 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ' Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise: Still the prospect...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene ; But... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate .' Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise: Still the prospect...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene ; But... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 374 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene ; But... | |
 | Cyrus Redding - 1842 - 310 pages
...enchanting picture. Its surrounding beauties increase, upon ascending the hill on the Cornish side: — " Still the prospect wider spreads, Adds a thousand...— widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill." When the river is traced further upwards, it preserves a character equally fine, though less expanded.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate, Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, $ Now 1 gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But... | |
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