 | John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 pages
...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. 40 Now 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 all the hues of Heaven's bow! And, swelling to embrace the light,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 638 pages
...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 the gay, the open scene Does the face of nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow ! And, swelling to embrace the... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 pages
...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 the gay, the open scene, "Does the face of Nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow : And, swelling to embrace the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 pages
...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 the gay, the open scene Does the face of nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow ! And, swelling to embrace the... | |
 | Robert Phillips Anderson - 1885 - 412 pages
...surroundings. " Scenes must be beautiful which nature makes at all times pleasing." "What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene ; But the gay, the open scene Does the face of Nature show In all the hues of heaven's bow, And, swelling to embrace the light,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1890 - 376 pages
...of the ascent. We pass on to the prospect itself. Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene ; But the gay, the open scene, Does the lace of nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow ; And, swelling to embrace the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 pages
...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 the gay, the open scene Does the face of nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow ! And, swelling to embrace the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 pages
...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 the gay, the open scene Does the face of nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow ! And, swelling to embrace the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...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 the gay, the open scene Does the face of nature shew, In all the hues of heaven's bow ; And, swelling to embrace the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landskip ; scene Does the face of nature shew, In all the hues of heaven's bow ; And, swelling to embrace the... | |
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