When he met with any valleys or deep watercourses crossing the line, he either caused them to be filled up with rubbish, or bridges to be built over them, so well levelled, that all being of an equal height on both sides, the work presented one uniform and beautiful prospect.
But, like the most thrilling adventures, returning to the memories left behind is a beautiful prospect.
In hindsight, doubt should have been far from my mind, but at the time, there sat doubt, a big, heavy boulder obstructing my view of a beautiful prospect.
In an interview with TV Line Nicole Kidman seemed skeptical that another go-round would come to fruition, though she did call it a "beautiful prospect".
● The city offers prospects as beautiful and sublime as any in nature, as Robin Lynn and Francis Morrone amply demonstrate in their "Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes" (Norton, $29.95), a helpful and insightful pathfinder to 38 inviting sites.
On Leith Walk, as it rises to meet Princes Street, award-winning novelist Candia McWilliam is heartbroken at what has already disfigured her beautiful Edinburgh and the prospect of what may yet befall it.
I was excited about being around all of these nice people and beautiful music and the prospect of learning from a new environment and new circumstances and a new setting, because there's always more to be learned and ways to expand yourself and gain new tools within what you do.
As I keep saying, we are all dreaming creatures who continually live in part in our dreams, dreams of what could be for ourselves and our children, even dreams of what is the case, dreams in which our husbands grow more charming, our wives more beautiful, our houses finer, our prospects richer than they are.
The Oscars prospects of A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe, the 2001 biographical film of John Nash, a Nobel laureate in economics, almost had its Oscars campaign derailed by allegations that it had whitewashed significant aspects of Nash's life.
Mendes sought a new project after completing American Beauty (1999) and explored prospects including A Beautiful Mind, K-PAX, The Shipping News, and The Lookout.
Small can be very beautiful – but too much expectation can kill a show's future prospects stone-dead.
