| 1809 - 402 pages
...inherit Nor the pride nor ample piuiou, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Thro' the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Sach forms as glitter in the muse's ray, With orient hues, uu borrow 'd of the sun, Yet shall he mount,... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...pinion, That the Theban Eaglef bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air: Yet oil 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 way Beyond... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...4Tor the pride, nor ample pinion, liât the Theban eagle " bear Sailing with supreme dominion "hrough 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 way ieyond... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...nor ample pinion, 1 That the Theban eagle bear, ' Sailing with supreme dominion Through the a/ lire 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 San: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant *ay Beyond... | |
| 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 hatli powr'd... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...speak. Cowley. 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,... | |
| 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
...though he inherit 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 way... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...Though he inherit 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...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 way Beyond... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...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...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 way Beyond... | |
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