 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 618 pages
...Akenside, who had himself caught, in his favorite Greek studies, the spirit of these philosophers. ' The high-born soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry. Tired of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Alpine height*, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling liis obert Chambers bis gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet ? The high-born soul! Disdains... | |
 | Edmund Dorr Griffin - Europe - 1831 - 478 pages
...demands Who that from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey N HUM, or Ganges, rolling his bright wave Through mountains,...windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet? For my own part, I experienced the falsity of the implied principle of the poet. My eye was, no doubt,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Physicians - 1832 - 334 pages
...to " Who that from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon to survey Njlus, or Ganges, rolling his bright wave, Through mountains,...windings of a scanty rill, That murmurs at his feet ?" BI v. 151—183. These admirable lines are founded on a passage in Longinus* ; which the poet acknowledges... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 454 pages
...Who, that from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey The Nile, or Ganges, rolling his bright wave Through mountains,...shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze, And mark the wanderings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet ? ' Thus I have feebly endeavoured,... | |
 | John McVickar - 1832 - 134 pages
...Through mountains, rocks and deserts, black with shade, And continents of sand, would turn his gaze, And mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet V " • The warm reception he met with from his relatives in the Valley, and the varied amusements... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...to continue my search ; and I follow in the way in which you go before. MILTON'S LETTER TO DEODATI. The highborn soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspiring...Beneath its native quarry. Tir'd of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft. — AKENSIDE. Our hearts ne'er bow but to superior worth, Nor ever... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1835 - 416 pages
...survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave [shade, Thro' mountains, plains, thro' empires black with And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark...windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet ? The high-bora soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry. Tir'd of earth... | |
 | Hope - 1836 - 388 pages
...flame ) Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through mountains,...her heaven-aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry. Tired of Earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying... | |
 | Dionysius Cassius Longinus - 1838 - 158 pages
...flame? Who that from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Mlus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through mountains,...windings of a scanty rill, That murmurs at his feet." — °O\ous oxSovs. Huge masses entire. Сотр. 43. $2. — Пота/íoiYv TOV yévovs. I. e. rivers... | |
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Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet? 
