 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
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...round, — unhappy fate, Sooner or later, of all height ! — Withdraw their summits from the skies, WYWZW[W\W }1 THE MOmiAIS'3 TOP ; FRKE PBOSPBrT J CASTLS8, CnTBCHMI,! ni - ; MOCXTAIS3, KLOCKS, BOCKS. Now I gain... | |
 | 1856 - 754 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 vapours... | |
 | 1864 - 148 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 vapors, intervene ; But... | |
 | John Armstrong, John Dyer, Matthew Green - 1858 - 314 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw then- summits from the sides, 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, In... | |
 | John Armstrong, John Dyer, Matthew Green - 1858 - 314 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 still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. 40 Now I gam the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 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... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 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 vapours... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 116 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 vapors intervene ; But... | |
 | Arnold James Cooley - 1865 - 264 pages
...prospect opens wide ; 'How close and small the hedges lie! ' What streaks of meadows cross the eye ! ' And still the prospect wider spreads, 'Adds a thousand...meads, ' Still it widens, widens still, ' And sinks the newly risen hill •' Distant harbours meet the view, And cliffs for ever bold and new, 1 See Note,... | |
 | John Armstrong - 1868 - 330 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, Arid lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect wider...widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. 40 Now I gam the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay,... | |
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