Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around. Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays! Le stagioni - Seite 198von James Thomson - 1826 - 412 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Bernard Cooke - 1811 - 324 Seiten
...hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. — Heav'ns, what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glitt'ring towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays.... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - 1812 - 340 Seiten
...hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the labours of his toil. Heav'ns ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And giitt'ring towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1814 - 274 Seiten
...could command himself as he pleased, he rushed into temptation, and was subdued. CHAP. , CHAP. VI. " Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching la:id-,cape into smoke decays... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...flies, Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies. XI. — Panegyric on Great .Brzto'tt.— THOMSON, HEAVENS ! what -a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glitt'ring towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays... | |
| James Sargant Storer - 1816 - 826 Seiten
...Nature : indeed, the following lines of the poet Thomson, nerer were more aptly applied. " Hear'ns ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, " Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, " And glittering towns, and ocean wide, 'till all " The stretching landscape into smoke decays."... | |
| James Thomson - 1816 - 256 Seiten
...softly-swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, i And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1816 - 272 Seiten
...believing he could command himself as he pleased, he rushed into temptation, and was subdued. CHAPTER VI. * Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays... | |
| James Storer - 1817 - 218 Seiten
...Nature : indeed, the following lines of the poet Thomson, never were more aptly applied. " Heav'ns ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, " Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, 11 And glittering towns, and ocean wide, 'till all " The stretching landscape into smoke decays."... | |
| John Evans - 1817 - 610 Seiten
...swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heav'ns ! what a goodly prospect spreads around Of hills and dales, and woods and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays... | |
| James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 Seiten
...softly-swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glktering towns, and gilded streams, till ail * In his last sickness. The stretching landscape... | |
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