 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
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 pages
...inherit Nor the pride nor ample pinion That the Theban eagles bear, Sailing with 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 unborrowed of the sun ; Yet shall he mount and keep his distant... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle4 bear, Sailing with 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, unborrowed of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bare, Sailing with 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, unborrow'd of the Sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 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 soft before his infant eyes would run Such forms... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 pages
...his choruses ; above all in the last of Caractacus : " Hark ; heard ye not yon footstep dread 1" &c. Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unhorrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear,6 Sailing with 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 hue?, unl>orro\v'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...Lyre divine, what daring Spirit That the Theban Eagle bear. 6 Sailing with 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 J Milton. k " flammantia mcenia mundi." LueretiiM. i 0<fiQa\iiwv fiiv o/ifpo-f StSov... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...But, ah! 't is heard no more O ! lyre divine, what daring spirit "Wakes thee now 1 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...Nor the pride nor ample pinion That the Theban eagle 2 bear, Sailing with 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, unborrow'd of the sun ; Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...Nor the pride nor ample pinion That the Theban eagle 2 bear, Sailing with 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, unborrow'd of the sun ; Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant... | |
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