...still higher strain of poetry, but perhaps not with greater dignity and effect, by Gray : " But see where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the...necks in thunder cloth'd and long resounding pace." desirous of seeing their author, for which purpose he prevailed upon a friend to accompany him to town,...

...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...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er,...

...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...fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, Their necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace.f Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed...

...somewhat the same image to characterise Dryden. He, lndeed,furn)shes bis car with but two horse* ; ation is rather to active life." I said, some young...that can retire to pious solitude ; but he thought nocks in thunder clothed, and long resounding pace." BOSWSLIn Johnson, In the Life of Pope, has made...

...his car with but two horses ; but they are of " ethereal race : " — " Behold where Dryden's U?ss presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necki in thunder clothed, and long mounding pace." JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, the truth is, they both drive...

...tremble as they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd bis eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth' d and longresounding pace." My object, however, in this paper is to show our young friends the...

...memorably eulogizing Milton, describes Dryden's heroic couplet in these sonorous lines : — BeholJ, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the...of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race. With necka in thunder cloth'd and long-resounding pace. It is useful thus to look at these two passages...

...tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with exccess of light, , Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. The 'Ode to Eton College,' the 'Ode to Adversity,' and the far-famed...

...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...fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, V. 98. " Flammantia moeniamundi," Lucret. i. 74. Gray. See also Stat. Silv. iv. 3. 156 : " Ultra sidera,...

...Gothic cloud of time and language." Pope has a similar allusion in the " Essay on Criticism"? (13) " Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of etherial race, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace ! Hark, his hand the lyre explore...