 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!  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1991841Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Moule, William Westall - Great Britain - 1830 - 250 pages
...WESTALL, ARA ENGRAVED BY, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF, EDWARD FINDEN, WITH DESCRIPTIONS BY THOMAS MOULE. ' What a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and...spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, — Happy Britannia !" THOMSON. LONDON: CHARLES TILT, 86, FLEET STREET. MDCCCXXX. LONDON: IBOTSON AND... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...enchanting. We reached the summit of the Five Fieldt : — " Hcav'ns ! what a goodly prospect spread around Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns,...spires. And glittering towns, and gilded streams," This is a fairy region. The ravished eye glances from villa to grove, turret, pleasure-ground, hill,... | |
 | William Pulleyn - London (England) - 1830 - 402 pages
...bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonder of his toil. Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, aml woods, and lawns, and spires. And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching... | |
 | 1830 - 696 pages
...spires of London, form a beautiful prospect; or, as Thompson, the poet of nature, finely says: Oh! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawni, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, tTll all The itretcbmg landscape into... | |
 | Jacob Green - Europe - 1831 - 296 pages
...spires of London, form a beautiful prospect; or, as Thompson, the poet of nature, finely says: Oh! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and...till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays. It certainly forms an assemblage of picturesque beauties, which the pencil of Poussin would in vain... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavens ! what agoodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and...till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! Happy Britannia ! where the Queen of Arts, Inspiring vigour, Liberty abroad Walks, unconfined, even... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1831 - 564 pages
...sung. O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavens ! what a goodly...dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires. And glittering towers, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! " • Highgate and... | |
 | 1852
...scene, extending for miles and miles in view. " Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spread around Of bills and dales, and woods and lawns, and spires, And glittering...gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape iu thin mist decays." As the hour of twelve drew nigh, carriages and horsemen — aye, and fair equestrians... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...sung ! O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavens ! what a goodly...till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! This enraptured passage from Thomson, I have sometimes felt almost inclined to censure as extravagant... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...guards stand, denying all retreat, And give the flying wretch a better death. 40 NO. 129. BRITAIN. OH ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills and...gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke.-decays! Happy Britannia ! where the Queen of Arts 5 Inspiring vigor, liberty abroad Walks unconfin'd,... | |
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