 Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. 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,...  The British anthology; or, Poetical library - Sida 23efter British anthology - 1825Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 sidor
...our hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is Drydcn now. to CHARACTER OF DRYDEN. ; AH oot or ORAY'S. BEHOLD, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide...fields of glory bear, Two coursers of ethereal race, . CPaccWith necks in thunder clo.,th 'd, and long.resoundi ng Hark, hishands the lyre explore) 5 B.'ght-ey'd... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 500 sidor
...furnishes his car with but two horses; but they are of." ethereal race ;'* " Behold where Dryden's 4ess presumptuous car, " Wide o'er the fields of glory...coursers of ethereal race, " With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long resounding pace." Ode on tbt Progress of Patsy* published in my absence, " There... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 sidor
...sapphire blaze. He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light [9], Clos'd his eyes in endless night (y). Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide...fields of Glory bear Two Coursers of ethereal race (z), With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace (a). III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre... | |
 | 1800 - 460 sidor
...cfa throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night.* Behold where Dryden's...the fields of glory bear Two coursers' of ethereal race,t [pace. With necks in thunder cloth 'd* and long-resounding in. I. Hark ! his hands the lyre... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 sidor
...sapphire blaze. He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light [9], Clos'd his eyes in endless night (y). Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide...fields of Glory bear Two Coursers of ethereal race (z), With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace (a). III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 sidor
...French model, which has subsisted ever since. He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light [8], Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's...fields of Glory bear Two Coursers of ethereal race y, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resoundinj pace z. III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore... | |
 | William Pitt - 1804 - 330 sidor
...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 op6av«» ^ a^™) by Gray himself, or... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 sidor
...hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is Dryden now. CHARACTER OF DRYDEN. FROM GRAY'S PROGRESS OF POESY. BEHOLD, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! [pace. Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er,... | |
 | 1806 - 852 sidor
...tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted witli excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless nifflit. Behold whe're Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide...the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal rice, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace ! < Where truth is sufficient to fill... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 sidor
...model, which ha* subsisted ever since. * Shakespeare. + Milton. 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... | |
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