 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...characterise Dryden. He, indeed, furnishes his car with but two horses ; but they are of " ethereal race:" " Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car, " Wide...coursers of ethereal race, '• With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long resounding pace." Ode <m ttt fr<$mt efften. " With secret course, which no loud... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear * Shakespeare. t Milton. Two Coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long-resounding... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...hearts allow, And what Timothens was, is Dryden now. CHARACTER OF DRYDEN. FROM GRAY'S PROGRESS OF POESY. BEHOLD, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide...With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding Hark, his hands the lyre explore! [puce. Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictm°d... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light. Closed hia eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er...fields of Glory bear Two Coursers of ethereal race, Withnecks in thunder cloth'd, andlong-resoundingpace III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...sympathetic Tears. III. 2. He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of etherial race, With necks in thunder cloth'd and long resounding pace. III. 3. Hark ! his hands the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...tremble while they gaze, He saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. us couriers of ethereal race, [sounding pace. With n^cks in thunder clolh'd, and long reIII. 3. Hark,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...hearts allow, And what Timotheus was is Oryden now. CHARACTER OF DRYDElf, FROM AN ODE OF CRAY. Br.HOLD, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the...fields of glory bear: Two coursers of ethereal race, [pace. With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resoumiioir Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-ey'd... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...old,"- Bevil Higgons, and John Phillips of the Inner Temple. How little equal, collectively, to Gray's ' Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...old," Bevil Higgons, and John Phillips of the Inner Temple. How little equal, collectively, to Gray's ' Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide...fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, " corpore quadrato" as Lord Hailes some years ago observed to Mr. Malone, " a description which JCneas... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...lumiua figit, Lumina nox pepulit." Two coursers of ethereal race, 105 With necks in thunder cloth'dj and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. 110 VARIATIONS.... | |
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Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light. Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed,... 
