 | Collection - 1766 - 356 pages
...dangers feem ; So we miftake the future's face, Ey'd through hope's deluding glafs; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to...way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. O may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what I fee i Content me with an humble fhade, My paffions tam'd, iny... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 410 pages
...dangers feem ; So we miftake the future's face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which,...brown, and rough appear ; Still we tread the fame cparfe way, The prefent 's ftill a cloudy day. O may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what I fee... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 368 pages
...Hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of .the air, Which, to thole who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear ; Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent '•s ftill a cloudy day. 0 may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what I fee i Content me... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 516 pages
...future's face, Ey'd 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...way ; The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. O may I with myfelf agree. And never covet what I fee ! Content me with an humble made. My paffions tam'd, my wifhes... | |
 | 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;..." The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. ; O may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what I fee ! Content me with an humble fhade, My paffions tam'd, my wifhes... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...dangers feem ; So we miftake the future's face, Eyed through hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, , Clad in colours of the air, Which...Still we tread the fame coarfe way, The prefent's fiill a cloudy day. O may I with myfelf agree, And never covet what I fee ! Content me with an humble... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 492 pages
...Ey'd through hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, JWuh to thofe who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough...fame coarfe way, The prefent's ftill a cloudy day. By crouding too many thoughts together, writers often produce confufion. Part of the above is uncommonly... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...its fucceflbrs : So we miftake the future's fact^ Ey'd through hope's deluding glafe ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, \ • Which to thofe, &c. This readingalfo, will give us grammatical conftru&ion : — ' We miftake the future's ' face,... | |
 | 1787 - 652 pages
...fucceflbrs : 5« mat mijlake the future's face, Ey'd through /jcfe's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to thofe, Sec. This reading alfo will give us grammatical conflruftion : — "We miibke the future's face, as... | |
 | Books - 1787 - 666 pages
...fucceffora : So <we mijlake the future's face, Ey'd through hope's deluding glafs ; As yon fummits foft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to thofe, &c. This reading alfo will give us grammatical conflruflion : — " W« ftiftake the future's face,... | |
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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. 
