 | 1735 - 682 pages
...feem ; So we miftake the future's face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glafs. As yon fummits loft »nd fair, Clad in colours of the air, - Which, to thofe...rough appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. The defcription of the beautiful form which removed cultivation takes,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1755 - 356 pages
...yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to thofe who journey near, Barren, and brown, and rough appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. O may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what I fee : Content me with... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to thofe who journey near, " Barren and brown and rough appear, Still we tread the fame coarfe way, . The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. THE unexpected infertion of fuch reflections, imparts to us the fame... | |
 | 1758 - 352 pages
...methinks may pafs the ftream, So little diftant dangers feem ; So we miftake the future's face, Ey'd thro' hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair,...rough appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. O may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what I fee : Content me with... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...yon fummits foft and fair, .Clad in colours of the air, Which to thofe who journey near, Barren and brown and rough appear, Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. * In this light alfo his poem on the Rains of Rome deferves a perufal.... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 392 pages
...fouthern fide, Where the profpeft opens wide, Where the evening gilds the tide ; How clofe and fmall the hedges lie ! What ftreaks of meadows crofs the...rough appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. O may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what I fee ! Content me with... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 356 pages
...fide, "\ Where the profpeft «pens wide, ? Where the evening gilds the tide ; * How clofe and fmall the hedges lie ! What ftreaks of meadows crofs the...rough appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. O may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what I fee i Content me with... | |
 | 1782 - 516 pages
...future's face, Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glafs. As yon fummits foft and fair; Clad in colours of the aio Which, to thofe who journey near, Barren, brown, and...appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way ; The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. O may I with myfelf agree. And never covet what I fee ! Content me with... | |
 | 1782 - 402 pages
...through hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fuhimits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to th6fe who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear; Still we tread the fame coarfe way,' : " The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. ; O may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what I fee ! Content me... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 544 pages
...was 'wide. But this paragraph requires confideration in another point of view : How clofe and fmall the hedges lie ! What ftreaks of meadows crofs the...rough appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. By crouding too many thoughts together, writers often produce confufion.... | |
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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. 
