 Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient...  Eclectic and Congregational Review - Page 2631856Full view - About this book
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...the pride nor ample pinion That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Thro' the aaure deep of air, Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muses' ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun; Yet shall he mount and keep his distant way Beyond... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...inherit Nor the pride nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Thro' ling, hoping, ling'ring, flying [ Oh the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fon plittcr in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun, Yet shall he mount, and keep his... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...inherit Nor the pride nor ample piuiou, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Thro' the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Sach forms as glitter in the muse's ray, With orient hues, uu borrow 'd of the sun, Yet shall he mount,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...on bt. Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle " bear Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his...forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the Sun: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way llcyond the limits of a vulgar... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...4Tor the pride, nor ample pinion, liât the Theban eagle " bear Sailing with supreme dominion "hrough the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant...forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the Sun: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way ieyond the limits of a vulgar fate,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...nor ample pinion, 1 That the Theban eagle bear, ' Sailing with supreme dominion Through the a/ lire oat. Filling with frantic crowds of thinking fools,...reverend bedlams, colleges, and schools, Home on whose unborrow'd of the San: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant *ay Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate,... | |
 | 1822 - 428 pages
...clad Walk in my boundless mind -- This is perhaps the original of the most poetical passage in Gray : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the Sun The lines from Storer, in p. C79, Nature hatli powr'd enough in each man's lappe,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...elsewhere said of the poetical visions which delighted his. childhood. "Oft before his infant 'eye would run . " Such forms as glitter in the muse's ray, " With orient hues." " Among the several kinds of beauty," (says Mr. Ad " dison) the eye takes most delight in colours.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 564 pages
...fixed, with exquifite judgment, on this clafs of our conceptions : ' , Yet oft before his infant eye would run Such Forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With Orient hues From thefe remarks it may be eafily underftood, why the word Imagination, in its moft ordinary acceptation,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...bear." Pope in his Temple of Fame, 210, has copied Horace, and yoked four swans to the car of the poet : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : 120 Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar... | |
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