 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...Glory bear Two coursers of etherial race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy,...pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." Dryden's plays and poems are not much read, though Alexander's Feast still retains its popularity,... | |
 | 1843 - 234 pages
...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 Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Hark! his hands the Lyre explore! But ah! 'tis heard no more.— Oh! lyre divine, what daring spirit... | |
 | 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 now? though he... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 328 pages
...from her pictured urn Thoughts, that hreathe, and words, that han. •But ah 1 'tis heard no more Oh ! lyre divine, what daring Spirit Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, tThat the Thehan eagle hear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...from her pictured arn Thoughts, that breathe, and words, that ban. •But ah ! 'tis heard no more Oh ! lyre divine, what daring Spirit Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, tThat the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft... | |
 | 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...urn, Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." Fancy, as a bright-eyed, embodied spirit, hovering over, breathing thoughts, and burning words —... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...each — Are nameless graces, which no mcilii<Hi teach, And which a master's hand alone — can reacb. Bright-eyed fancy — hovering o'er, Scatters— from...Thoughts — that breathe, and words — that burn. If good— we plant not, vice — will fill the place, And rankest weeds — the richest soil — deface.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark ! his hands2 the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that3 breathe, and words that burn : But ah ! 'tis heard no more — Oh ! lyre divine, what daring... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...each — Are nameless graces, which no methods teach, And which a master's hand alone— can reach Bright-eyed fancy — hovering o'er. Scatters— from her pictured urn, Thoughts — that breathe, and vords — that burn If good — we plant not, vice — will fill the place, And rankest weeds — the... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...— where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wite. The same is true of the following fine image : Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy...pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. The beauties and deficiencies of Gray, both as a man and a poet, are traceable to his fastidious taste.... | |
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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, and long-resounding pace. 
