 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 páginas
...a still higher strain of poetry, but perhaps not with greater dignity and effect, by Gray : But see 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. * Ruffhead, p. 23.— The friend... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 páginas
...a still higher strain of poetry, but perhaps not with greater dignity and effect, by Gray : But see 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. * Ruffhead, p. 23. — The friend... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire-blaze. rom the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er th* fields... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 páginas
...28. — GRAY. Ver. 101. He saw; but, blasted with excess of light.] " Oculos ausus attollere contra." Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, 105 With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark, his hands... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 páginas
...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,...fields of glory bear Two coursers of etherial race, [pace. With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding Ver. 95. ATor second He, that rode sublime]... | |
 | 1826 - 310 páginas
...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,...Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, AVith necks in thunder cloth'd, and long resounding pace. * Shakspeare. t Milton. III.... | |
 | 1822 - 814 páginas
...Mr Gray: " ' 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.' " To these glowing eulogies on the illustrious Priestley, may be added those contained in the "Apology"... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 páginas
...characterize Dryden. He, indeed, famishes 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 cloth'd, and long resounding pace. as much perplexed by Luke as... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 páginas
...abyss to spy. He pass'd the flammg 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... | |
 | Eton miscellany - 1827 - 532 páginas
...glorious majesty above. Such is Gray's description of 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." The next position of the Eye, which I shall mention, is when it... | |
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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! 
