 | Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 páginas
...hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Faney hovering o'er Scatters from her pictured urn nlinil pace Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah '. 'tis heard no more— Oh l Lyre divine, what daring Spirit AVakcs thec now ? though he inherit Xor the pride, nor ample pinion,... | |
 | English poets - 1847 - 144 páginas
...quite inconsistent with its trammels. " Hark ! his hands the lyre explore ; Bright-eyed Fancy hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.''* Mason, also the friend of Gray, as well as his biographer, distinguished himself when at college a.... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1847 - 362 páginas
...bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With 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 Thoughts that breathe and words that burn." Sir William Temple, Locke, Stillingfleet,... | |
 | 1848 - 464 páginas
...not only write but feel, not only paint but create. When he is thus truly inspired, — " Bright-ey'd Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn." The ode admits of bold and rapid transition in thought, as well as versification. As no two consecutive... | |
 | 1848 - 468 páginas
...not only write but feel, not only paint but create. When he is thus truly inspired, — " Bright-cy'd Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn." The ode admits of bold and rapid transition in thought, as well as versification. As no two consecutive... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 páginas
...sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. MILTON. 2. Dryden ! Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. GRAY— The Bard. 3. The Poet blind yet bold... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 páginas
...Perseverance keeps honor bright. Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. A NEW GEM at HOME. 54. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. The Progress of Poesy. GRAY. 55. To gild refined... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 páginas
...Perseverance keeps honor bright. Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. A NEW GEM at HOME. 54. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. The Progress of Poesy. GRAY. 65. To gild refined... | |
 | Bombay (India : State). Board of Education - 1851 - 768 páginas
...pace ! Hark, his hand the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more !" GRAY. — The Progress of Poesy. Grammatical construction of the first four lines ? What do 4 the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 páginas
...cloth'd, and long-resounding in. 3. [pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn, no But ah ! 'tis heard no more Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Var. V. 108. Bright-eyed] Full-plumed.... | |
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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 cloth'd, and long-resounding pace. 
