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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. "
The Works of the English Poets: Dyer; Mallet - Page 5
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...Hope's deluding glass ; As yon summits soft ami fair , Clad in colonrs of the air , Which to thote who journey near , Barren , brown , and rough appear ;, Still we tread the same coarse way , The present's still a cloudy day. O may I with myself agree , And never covet what...
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Letters, 1784-1789

John Wilkes - 1805 - 348 pages
...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. Trusty sends his duty. He improves every day in...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...through hope's deluding glass j 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. O may I with myself agree, And never covet what...
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The cabinet of poetry, containing the best entire pieces in the works of the ...

Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...hope's deluding glass ; N 2 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. O may I with myself agree, And never covet what...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...deluding glass ; , '. ' As yon summits soft and fair, ?lad 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. O may I with myself agree, And never covet what...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...through 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. O may I with myself agree, And never covet what...
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Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...through 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. O may I with myself agree, And never covet what...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - 1814 - 254 pages
...dangers feem. [i] So we miftake the future's face, Fy'd through Hope's deluding glafs. As yon fumraits, foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which,...appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way ; The prefent's ftill a cloudy day, O may I with rnyfelf agree, And never covet what I fee ! Content me with...
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Sequel to the English Reader, Or Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...may pafs the ftream ; So little diftant dangers seem : So we miftake the future's face, Ey'd'through hope's deluding glafs, As yon fummits foft and fair,...brown, and rough appear ; Still we tread the fame coarie way ; The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. Ever charming, ever new, When will the landfcapc tire...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...through Hope's deluding glass. As yon summits, soft and fair, Clad in colou-s of the air, Which, to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear ; Still we tread the same coarse way ; The present's sti'la cloudy day. O may I with myself agree, And never covet whai...
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