 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Birds - 1835 - 496 pages
...a conceit, than by a more enviable thought, that Gray refers, in allusion to Milton's blindness: ' He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' In a word, it is amid this blaze of glory of the heaven of fire, that GOD himself is so often represented... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 pages
...a conceit, than by a more enviable thought, that Gray refers, in allusion to Milton's blindness : ' He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' In a word, it is amid this blaze of glory of the heaven of fire, that GOD himself is so often represented... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...furnishes his car with but two horses; but they are of " ethereal race:" " Behold where Dryden'i Ian re abundant instances in these volumes to show that ha was not exemp ethereal race, [pace." With neclu In thunder clothed, and long resounding Ode on the Progregg ofPoefy... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1836 - 328 pages
...the flaming bounds of space 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." The crowning work of him who would profit in the highest degree by the study of the Classics, is yet... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 pages
...the flaming bounds of space 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." The crowning work of him who would profit in the highest degree by the study of the Classics, is yet... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 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, Wide o'er the fields... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 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, Wide o'er the fields... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...and Gray characterizes the poetry of Dryden in a manner equally poetical : S* Behold where Drydea'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 pace. PERFUMES. NATURE affords not... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...whose vision blenched in light's excess. 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. There may be intelligence in creation that can behold the supernatural without destruction. There may... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphiie blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but,...Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Ver. 95. JVor second He, that... | |
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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! 
