 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
 | John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 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...I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open scene Does the face of Nature show,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 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 landskip lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 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 landskip lies below ! ' No clouds, no vapours intervene,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, d sublime, The image of Eternity, — the throne Of...The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys newly risen lull. Now I gain the mountain's brow ; What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapors... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 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 landskip lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or Inter, of all height. Withdraw their summits from the skies, @ l 6 A&8 M wP+\bI PMm f r 2 {Lw W۾ ...=nY c dg v \ ! xJڔ C cB * Ta"{ %V`6 ( lull. Now I gain the mountain's brow ; What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapors intervene... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, Aud lesseu snch name as "Nevermore." But the Raven sitting lonely On the placid bust, aud meads ; Still it widens, wideus still, And sinks the newly risen bill. Now, I gain the mountain's... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...unhappy fato ! Sooner or later of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen ns h as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold ! Of other care they wideus, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 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 I No clouds, no vapours intervene, But... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 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...meads ; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapors... | |
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