 | Laughton Osborn - American fiction - 1841 - 430 pages
...inferiority of the language in which the imitator wrote. Secondly, in the eighth strophe, we hare : " Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er...bear Two coursers of etherial race, With necks in thundir eloth'd, and long-resounding pace." In this very beautiful passage, the fault arises from the... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 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....necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1842 - 440 pages
...GREEK CLASSICS. ness, that the astonished bard became blind in the act of devout contemplation : " He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in emiless night." From Ithaca Homer is said to have gone to Italy. Wherever he went ho recited his verses,... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - English poetry - 1843 - 224 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1844 - 428 pages
...Milton : — " He passed the flaming bounds of time and space, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze: He saw, —...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
...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." 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...abyss to spy. Tie passed the flaming bounds of space and time : Tbe living throne, the sapphire-blaze, has thus eulogised him in one of his most eloquent sentences : — ' Cl'.-sed his eyea in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...gaze, He saw ; hut hlasted with excess of light, Cloaed his eyes in endless night. • Shakapeare. l 1 Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory hear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. III. 3.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...surely allowable— is poetically truc, and happily imagined." The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but,...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 !... | |
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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! 
