 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 416 pages
...lightning" of the mind : and Gray characterizes the poetry of Dryden in a manner equally poetical. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide...ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long resounding pace. Gray. It is impossible for a man of an elegant mind, living in Britain, not to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 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...bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thundercloth'd,and long-resounding pace. III. 3Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-ey'd fancy,... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young desire, and purple light of love. " Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. But, ah ! 'tis heard no more — Oh ! lyre... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...a still higher strain of poetry, but perhaps not with greater dignity and effect, by Gray : But see where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the...of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd and long resounding pace. * Ruffhead, p. 23. — The friend here alluded to was probably Sir Charles Wogan.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...a still higher strain of poetry, but perhaps not with greater dignity and effect, by Gray : But see where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the...of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd and long resounding pace. * Ruffhead, p. 23.— The friend here alluded to was probably Sir Charles Wogan.... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...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...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 458 pages
...but two horses ; but they are of " ethereal race :" " Behold where Dryden's less presumptuoua,car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long resounding pace." " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er th* these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial thundercloth'd.and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-ey'd Fancy hovering... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...28. — GRAY. Ver. 101. He saw; but, blasted with excess of light.] " Oculos ausus attollere contra." Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide...fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, 105 With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore... | |
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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,... 
