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! London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of ... - Page 60by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - 1810Full view - About this book
| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, 1435 And joys to see the wonders of his toil. 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 landskip into smoke decays ! 1440 Happy... | |
| George Lipscomb - England - 1799 - 394 pages
...house. Here we suddenly arrived at a most beautiful and romantic spot called Babylon hill. " Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires. And glittering towns, and gilded streams." THOMPSON, The road winds down a very steep declivity, vhich,.... | |
| James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...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 ! Happy Britannia ! where the Queen of Arts , Inspiring vigour, Liberty abroad Walks , unconfin'd ,... | |
| James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...pow'r of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. * In his last sickness. Heav'ns ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glitt' ring towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! Happy... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. 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 ! Happy Britannia... | |
| John Feltham - London (England) - 1802 - 466 pages
...sottly-swelling hills ! On which the power of Cultivation lies, And joy to see the wonder of his toil. Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams. ....... A tittle beyond the Star and Gancr, and close to the... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...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 ! Happy Britannia ! where the Queen of Arts, Inspiring vigour, Liberty abroad Walks, unconfin'd, even... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies , And joys to see the wonders of his toil. 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 ! Happy... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...softly-swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. 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! Happy Britannia!... | |
| Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 pages
...good restore, \. " To light and joy unknown before." | THE TRAVELS OF ABDALLAH CONTINUED. " 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 !" SECOND... | |
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