 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...the flaming bounds of Place and " Shakspeare. '" Milton. The living Throne, the sapphire blaze 15 . Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but,...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night '6 . Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear Two Coursers of... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...the flaming bounds of place and time ; The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble as they gaze, He saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Respecting this passage a curious circumstance is revealed 3by Gray's biographer. In a manuscript Commentary... | |
 | 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...Two coursers of 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,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...wings of ecstacy, The secrets of th' abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time : The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble...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... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of space and time : The li ving throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but...With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured... | |
 | 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...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd and long resounding pace. * Ruffhead, p. 23. — The friend here alluded to was probably Sir... | |
 | 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...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd and long resounding pace. * Ruffhead, p. 23.— The friend here alluded to was probably Sir... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of the' abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble...Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of etherial race, [pace. With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding Ver. 95. ATor second He, that... | |
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He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time : The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. 
