 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5741839Full view - About this book
 | 1735 - 682 pages
...Hope's deluding glafs. As yon fummits loft »nd fair, Clad in colours of the air, - Which, to thofe who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. The defcription of the beautiful form which removed... | |
 | 1758 - 352 pages
...thro' hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to thofe 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... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 392 pages
...through hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to thofe 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... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 356 pages
...through hope's deluding glafs; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to thofe 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 362 pages
...through Hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which, to thofe 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 516 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, , . Which to thofe who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. By crouding too many thoughts together, writers... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, , Clad in colours of the air, Which to thofe who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear; Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's fiill a cloudy day. O may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 270 pages
...through Hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which, to thofe 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, ] i And never covet... | |
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