 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 516 pages
...the flaming bounds of place and time : The living throne, the sapphire hlaze, Where angels tremhle, while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." SECTION III. On the Pretences Mr. advances in favour of his Principles. HAVING endeavoured to justify... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1832 - 614 pages
...that rode sublime Upon the seraph wings of ecstacy." ' 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.' The writer observed that the German critics call Dryden a man walking upon stilts... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...sublime Upon the seraph wings of ecstacy-" ' " 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.' ' The writer observed, that the German critics call Dryden a man walking upon... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 504 pages
...Gray : — " He passed 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 bis eyes in endless night." SECTION in. On the Pretences Mr. advances in Favour of his Principles.... | |
 | sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - Metaphysics - 1835 - 160 pages
...Abyss to spy, He passed 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."* Again, in Spenser's legend of Holiness, after the Knight of the Red Cross has been contemplating celestial... | |
 | Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 pages
...in the Ode on the Progress of Poesy ; 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. Even so correct a writer as Boileau (whom Addison declares incapable of such false taste as this,)... | |
 | Archibald Bell - Essays - 1835 - 456 pages
...in the Ode on the Progress of Poesy ; 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. Even so correct a writer as Boileau (whom Addison declares incapable of such false taste as this,)... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...Dryden. He, indeed, furnishes his car with but two horses; but they are of " ethereal race: " — " 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." JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, the truth... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 358 pages
...bosom. In Gray's description of Milton, where he says : — " 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." The transition is immediate from what the poet saw, to what he... | |
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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! 
