 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
 | 1888 - 716 pages
...and murmurs once more Thomson's words — What a goodly prospect spreads around Of hills and dides, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns,...till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! And if the general view is so suggestive, by breaking up the larger features and rambling into some... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1890 - 802 pages
...harvest. " Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures. Whilst the landscape round it measures." MILTOK. " Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawn?, and spires. And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...sung. O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! 1435 On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavens ! what a goodly...And glittering towns and gilded streams, till all 1440 The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! ; Happy Britannia ! where the Queen of Arts, X Inspiring... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...sung. O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! 1435 On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, j Of hills and dales and woods and lawns and spires And glittering towns and gilded streams, till all... | |
 | James Thomson - 1892 - 148 pages
...Hesperia 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! Happy Britannia! where the queen of arts, Inspiring vigour, Liberty abroad Walks, unconfined, even... | |
 | Lucy Langdon Williams, Emma V. McLoughlin - Europe - 1892 - 276 pages
...small shop-keeping class. The rest of the house was in evening dress. Next day we went to Richmond. " Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of...till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays." I almost hesitate to mention another of the famous charms of Richmond, which we searched for with more... | |
 | William Black - English fiction - 1893 - 460 pages
...successf"lly — for once. But, if I were you, I wouldn't try it again." CHAPTER XXIII. " Heavens 1 what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and...till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays 1 " NEXT morning is a Sunday — calm and clear and still ; a placid sunlight falls on the trees in... | |
 | 1887 - 530 pages
...oceanward through valley, hill and plain. One might fancy the poet gazed here when he uttered: — " What a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills and dales, and woods and lawns, And glittering towns, and gilded streams and spires." But the lines are eulogistic of Richmond on the Thames,... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - English language - 1896 - 492 pages
...enforces deliberate attention to each object named in the following lines from the " Seasons :" — " Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of...dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towers, and gilded streams! " Epithets. — A true epithet adds to (as the Greek roots imply), or enriches.... | |
 | Arthur H. Elliott, Francis P. Smith, Frederick J. Harrison, W.I. Scandlin - Photography - 1899 - 650 pages
...country nooks and corners and out-of-theway places, while from many an eminence we are led to exclaim : " Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of...dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towers, and gilded streams.11 The poet has said that man is " the noblest study of mankind." I doubt... | |
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