 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth, we tempt the heights of arts, 220 While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind • But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas 'd at... | |
 | 1802 - 442 pages
...and Skakef" peare's Venus and Adonis, 1. 828. C» Thus Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 2z5. " So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the...to tread the sky. The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220 While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, Naw distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts , In fearlessyouth 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 arlvanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights. of Arts, While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views...lengths behind. But more advanced, behold with strange surprize New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...l-'ii't) at first sight with what the Muse imparts, 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 advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! •So pleas'd at... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, 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 advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...frVd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, in fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220 while from the bounded level of our mind short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; but more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise new distant scenes of endless science rise ! so pleas'd at first... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, in fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220 while from the bounded level of our mind short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; but more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise new distant scenes of endless science rise! so pleas'd at first... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts,. 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 advanc'd, behold, with sirange surprise,. New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at... | |
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Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, 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... 
