 | John Bell - 1799 - 436 pagine
...little distant dangers seeml no So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass l As yon' summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which, to those who journey near, 115 Barren, brown, and rough appear; Still we tread the same coarse way ; The present's still a cloudy... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pagine
...tide; J How close and small the hedges lie! What streaks of meadows cross the eye ! A step, mcthinks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glasr; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, <* Which... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pagine
...tide ! I How close and small the hedges lie ! What streaks of meadow cross the eye ! A step incthinks may pass the stream , So little distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's face Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass ; As yon summits soft ami fair , Clad in colonrs of the air , Which... | |
 | John Wilkes - 1805 - 348 pagine
...ev'ning gilds the tide, How close and small the hedges lie ! What streaks of meadows cross the eye ! A step, methinks, may pass the stream : So little...distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glass ; As yon' summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pagine
...poem on the Ruins of Rome deserves a perusal. Dodsley's Miscell. vol. i. page 78. His Fleece, - which A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the Future's face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glass. As yon summits, soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pagine
...ev'ning gilds the tide ; How close and small the hedges lie ! What streaks of meadows cross the eye ! A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem; So we mistake the future's face Ey'd through Hope's deluding glass ; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, J 195... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pagine
...evening gilds the tide, How close and small the hedges lie! What streaks of meadows cross the eye ! A step methinks may pass the stream ; So little distant dangers seem; So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd through hope's deluding glass j As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pagine
...exemplify this criticism. The poet, contemplating the distant landscape observes, A step me thinks may pass the stream, So little, distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's face, Ev'd thro' Hope's deluding glass. Moral reflections, which are usually obvious and tedious, if thus... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pagine
...Rome deserves •a perusal. Dodsley's Misccll. vol. i. page- 78. His J-'ft.rcr, A step, moth inks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the Future's face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glass. As yon summits, soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pagine
...deserves a perusal. Dodsley's Miscell. vol. i. page 78, His Fleece, . which A step, methinks, may pas? the stream, So little distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the Future's face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glass. As yon summits, soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which... | |
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Hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air Which to those who journey near Barren, brown and rough appear: Still we tread the same coarse way; The present's still a cloudy day. 
