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
| John Murray (Firm), Richard John King - 1876 - 568 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 glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays... | |
| John Murray (Firm), Richard John King - 1876 - 566 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, aiid woods, and lawns, and spires. Ami glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching... | |
| James Thomson - 1877 - 112 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 glittering towns, and gilded streams, Till all The stretching landscape into smoke decnys... | |
| 1833 - 738 Seiten
...studious in that neighbourhood, at the time he wrote, and concludes with this fine burst— ' • " 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."... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1877 - 480 Seiten
...of the poet and the painter, although neither art nor language can render it sufficient justice. " Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around Of hills and dales, and woods and lawns, and spires, And glitteiing towns, and gilded streams!" Such was the exclamation of one of the many poets... | |
| W Charles Benedict - 1878 - 922 Seiten
...Mr. Hall writes : " When I arrived on this hill I was led to exclaim in the language of another, " Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, of hills and dales, and woods and lawns and spires." It presents some of the most enchanting scenery to be found in the world. From this hill you... | |
| George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 Seiten
...occurred to disturb them." CHAPTER XVI. GREENWICH (continued}.— THE PARK, THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, &c. " Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glutering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays."... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1880 - 416 Seiten
...low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! men, — high-minded men.* England. — Heavens 1 what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streamers, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays... | |
| Mary Gifford Raleigh - 1881 - 348 Seiten
...lips in a moment some lines of Thomson's Seasons, which had been in my memory since boyhood : — fc 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 George Bohn - 1881 - 738 Seiten
...lampoons on me, 'tis said, But he writes nothing wno is never read. Hodgson,Mar1. 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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