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
| 1844 - 320 Seiten
...O 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 glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays... | |
| James Carter, Thomas Carter - 1845 - 486 Seiten
...truly English landscape, such an one, probably, as suggested the following animated description : — " 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!"... | |
| W I. Bicknell - 1846 - 602 Seiten
...hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to s«e the wonder of his toil. Hcav'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."... | |
| James Thomson - 1847 - 504 Seiten
...softly swelling hills ! 1435 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 glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all 1440 The stretching landscape into smoke... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1847 - 454 Seiten
...illustrate my meaning than by his introductory description to the " Panegyric on Great Britain":— " 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... | |
| British empire - 1847 - 812 Seiten
...hills I On whieh the power of cultivation lies, And jnys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavi-ns! what a goodly prospect spreads around Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, Anil glitt'iing towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays."... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 524 Seiten
...softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, 438 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 glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays!... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 Seiten
...softly swelling hills ! 'lll 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 glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays!... | |
| William Gaspey - 1851 - 496 Seiten
...O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonder of his toil. 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."t... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...lampoons on me, 'tis said, But he writes nothing who is never read. Hodgson,Mart. in. 9. LANDSCAPE. , Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towers, and gilded streams, till all LANGUAGE. Others for language all their... | |
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