 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...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...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-ey'd Fancy, hovering o'er,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...and Gray characterizes the poetry of Dryden in a manner equally poetical : S* Behold where Drydea's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long resounding pace. PERFUMES. NATURE affords not satisfaction to the eye and to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...of the abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphiie blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw...necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Ver. 95. JVor second He, that rode sublime] MILTON. Ver. 99. The living throne, the sapphire blaze'}... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...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....Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear Two coursers of etherial race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - 1843 - 224 pages
...he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of the abyss to spy ; He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: — The living...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' " E. — " There is something Miltonic in that noble motet — pity that so grand a swell should so... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 pages
...pure breath of Paradise, are now, doubtless, the subject of his untiring research. Milton — " passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time, The living throne,...sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze. " Doubtless the same ardent imagination still gives his spirit a higher flight, a wider range, a clearer... | |
 | 1843 - 234 pages
...joy; Of horror that, and.thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. He passed the flaming bounds of place and time. The living throne,...sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, Nor second he,t that rode sublime Upon the seraph wings of ecstacy: The secrets of the abyss to spy,... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - 1844 - 296 pages
...he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of the abyss to spy; He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: — The living...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." E. — There is something Miltonic in that noble motet — pity that so grand a swell should so soon... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Cl'.-sed his eyea oud again a» the other. Anybody may see he is an...up to Mr Jones, whom he immediately knew to be Mrs The ' Ode to Eton College,' the ' Ode to Adversity,' and the far-famed ' Elegy,' pre»ent the same... | |
 | 1844 - 428 pages
...reminds us of Gray the poet in describing Milton : — " He passed the flaming bounds of time and space, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light Closed his eyes in endless night." We hope, however, that Jethro, more fortunate than the great poet, will only have transcient dimness... | |
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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 his eyes in endless night. 
