 Nor second he that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of th' 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, blasted with excess...  Notes and Queries - Página 4421851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Pitt - 1804 - 330 páginas
...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 páginas
...Shakespeare. + Milton. * flamnumii mcenit mundi. Lucreiita. 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 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 blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields... | |
 | 1809 - 402 páginas
...wing* of ecstasy, The secrets of th* abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...gaze, He saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less, presumptuous car W ide o'er the fields... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...seraph wings of ectasy, The secrets of lh' abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of space and time, ty ! ful made. Leisure is pain ; take off our chariot...heavily we drag the load of life ! Blest leisure is our Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 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, blasted with excess of light. Closed hia eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of Glory... | |
 | 1810 - 286 páginas
...Abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time. The living threne, the sapphire-blaze, Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night."* Again, in Spencer's legend of Holiness, after the Knight of the Red Cross has been contemplating celestial... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 554 páginas
...of Ecstacy, 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. GRAY'S Prog, of Poesy. DEMODOCUS of sight, and to have given him the art of minstrelsy in recompence:... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1813 - 470 páginas
...kind of shade upon most of the other works of man-— 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 bis eyes hi endless night. But it was the light of... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1815 - 190 páginas
...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the op9aty«n ps, a^a.,) by Gray himself,... | |
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