 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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 of glory bear Two coursers of etherial... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...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 of Glory bear * Shakespeare. t Milton.... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...I wonder,however, the fastidious critic did not see something like conceit in these two lines — " He saw — but blasted with excess of light, •' Clos'd his eyes in endless night." The lyric poetry of Collins is less stately, solemn and sublime, than that of Gray, but it is more... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...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 W ide o'er the fields of glory bear Twoconrsers of ethereal... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...flaming bounds of space 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 of glory bear Two couriers of ethereal... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...of Joy, Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears. III. 2. 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 of glory bear Two coursers of etherial... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...place and time '<: The living throne, the sapphire -bla/e IS, Where angels tremble, while they gaw, for J. Johnson ". rkiiolri, where Drydon's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of (alory bear Two courses... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...I. xiv. 9. VOL. I. G The living throne, the saphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, 100 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 of glory bear * NOTES. Ver. 99.... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...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. ' Shxkespear. • Milton. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of Glory... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 pages
...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 of glory bear Two coursers of etherial... | |
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The secrets of th' Abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living Throne, the... 
