 | 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 o'er the fields of glory bear, Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding Hark, his hands the lyre explore!... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears. III. 2. He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less...Two coursers of etherial race, With necks in thunder cloth'd and long resounding pace. III. 3. Hark ! his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-ey'd Fancy, hov'ring... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...Abyss to spy. 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 hia eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of Glory... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...abyss to spy. 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, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less, presumptuous car W ide o'er the fields... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of space and time, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, , our chariot wheels : How heavily we drag the load of life ! Blest leisure is our Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields... | |
 | English essays - 1810 - 286 pages
...Abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time. The living threne, the sapphire-blaze, Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night."* Again, in Spencer's legend of Holiness, after the Knight of the Red Cross has been contemplating celestial... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...abyss to spy, 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, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. GRAY'S PROGRESS OP POEHY. ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER. HIGH on... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 554 pages
...of Ecstacy, 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,...EXCESS OF LIGHT, CLOSED HIS EYES IN ENDLESS NIGHT. GRAY'S Prog, of Poesy. DEMODOCUS of sight, and to have given him the art of minstrelsy in recompence:... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - Pastoral poetry, English - 1815 - 190 pages
...that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, HE saw : but,...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the op9aty«n ps, a^a.,) by Gray himself,... | |
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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, and long-resounding pace! 
