 | 1843 - 234 pages
...with excess of light Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Closed his eyes in endless night. Wide o'er the fields of glory bear, Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Bright-eyed fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...race 15 , With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Upon the seraph-wings of ecstacy, Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er Scatters from her pictured urn But, ah! 'tis heard no more.— Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. Wakes thee... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. T]X@]\]]] [ $ clothed, and long-resounding pace. The ' Ode to Eton College,' the ' Ode to Adversity,' and the far-famed... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...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...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Bark, his hands the lyre explore I Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Cl'.-sed his eyea in endless night. other. Anybody may see he is an actor.' While Mrs...conversation with Partridge, a lady came up to Mr Jones, clothed, and long-resounding pace. The ' Ode to Eton College,' the ' Ode to Adversity,' and the far-famed... | |
 | William Collins - 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.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 840 pages
...distance rolls along the gilded coach, Nor sturdy carmen on thy walks encroach. Gay. Trivia, book ii. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide...of ethereal race With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long resounding pace. Gray. The Progress of Poesy , iii. CARABAYA, a Province of Peru, now included... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 590 pages
...that rode sublima Upon the seraph wings of ecstasy." ' Dryden he assigns to an inferior class, — " Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of inferior race," &c.J The writer observed that the German critics call Dryden a man walking on stilts... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 coursers1 of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark !... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 pages
...day, and night to night, of some new-discovered excellence revealed in the manifold works of God. " Hark ! his hands the lyre explore. Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn, Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." Fancy, as a bright-eyed, embodied spirit,... | |
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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,... 
