 | Christopher Legge Lordan - English poetry - 1843 - 224 pages
...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...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' " E. — " There is something Miltonic in that noble motet — pity that so grand a swell should so... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 234 pages
...with excess of light Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Closed his eyes in endless night. Wide o'er the fields of glory bear, Two coursers of...necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Bright-eyed fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Cl'.-sed his eyea oud again a» the other. Anybody may see he is an...up to Mr Jones, whom he immediately knew to be Mrs The ' Ode to Eton College,' the ' Ode to Adversity,' and the far-famed ' Elegy,' pre»ent the same... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1844 - 428 pages
...us of Gray the poet in describing Milton : — " He passed the flaming bounds of time and space, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble...excess of light Closed his eyes in endless night." We hope, however, that Jethro, more fortunate than the great poet, will only have transcient dimness... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - English poetry - 1844 - 294 pages
...Ecstasy, The secrets of the abyss to spy ; He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: — The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." E. — There is something Miltonic in that noble motet — pity that so grand a swell should so soon... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...abyss, to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of space and tin* I The living-throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endlesn night. * Sfatktpeare. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...formation of his poem— a supposition surely allowable— is poetically truc, and happily imagined." The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble...presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers1 of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark !... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 840 pages
...distance rolls along the gilded coach, Nor sturdy carmen on thy walks encroach. Gay. Trivia, book ii. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide...Two coursers of ethereal race With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long resounding pace. Gray. The Progress of Poesy , iii. CARABAYA, a Province of Peru,... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - American literature - 1845 - 590 pages
...that rode sublima Upon the seraph wings of ecstasy." ' Dryden he assigns to an inferior class, — " Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of inferior race," &c.J The writer observed that the German critics call Dryden a man walking on stilts... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...abyss to spy. He pass'd the naming bounds of place and time ; The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but...fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, Their necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace.f Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed... | |
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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. 
