 Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far ! — but far above the...  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 68by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 332 pages
...Gray calls him, the Theban eagle; but the imagery of both poets is much the same. " tho' he inherit " Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, " That the Theban eagle bear, " Sailing with supreme dominion " Thro' the azure deep of air." Progress of Poetry. PAGE 139. For little drops of... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - Authors - 1809 - 498 pages
...royalty. — Oh! lyre divine, [of DRYDKN] what daring spirit Wakes thee now !— Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion That the theban eagle bear, Sailing, with supreme dominion, Through th« azure deep of air ! — &c. After my arrival at GIBRALTAR, I was in... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...burn. But ah ! tis heard no more — O lyre divine ! what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? TW he inherit stian to ft'n Soul. OD K. VITAL spark of heavenly flame! Quit, oh quit, supreme dominion Thro' the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...nor ample pinion, 1 That the Theban eagle bear, ' Sailing with supreme dominion Through the a/ lire oat. Filling with frantic crowds of thinking fools, The reverend bedlams, c in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the San: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...Cor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle !1 bear Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would nm Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the Sun : Yet shall he mount,... | |
 | Classical philology - 1822 - 428 pages
...clad Walk in my boundless mind -- This is perhaps the original of the most poetical passage in Gray : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the Sun The lines from Storer, in p. C79, Nature... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...bear." Pope in his Temple of Fame, 210, has copied Horace, and yoked four swans to the car of the poet : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : 120 Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...Nor the pride, or ample pinion, ' That the Theban eagle bear Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitter in tie Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theuan eagle bear, Sailing w ilh supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air: Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, uuborrow'd of the sun: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...But ah ! 'tis heard no more Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now? Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air: Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms... | |
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