 Where Angels 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 the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed,...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Seite 371von James Boswell - 1922Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...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 race, With necks in thunder cloth'd and long resounding pace. III. 3. Hark ! his hands the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 606 Seiten
...tremble while they gaze, He saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. us couriers of ethereal race, [sounding pace. With n^cks in thunder clolh'd, and long reIII. 3. Hark,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 Seiten
...hearts allow, And what Timotheus was is Oryden now. CHARACTER OF DRYDElf, FROM AN ODE OF CRAY. Br.HOLD, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the...fields of glory bear: Two coursers of ethereal race, [pace. With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resoumiioir Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-ey'd... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 Seiten
...old,"- Bevil Higgons, and John Phillips of the Inner Temple. How little equal, collectively, to Gray's ' Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide...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,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 Seiten
...old," Bevil Higgons, and John Phillips of the Inner Temple. How little equal, collectively, to Gray's ' Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide...fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, " corpore quadrato" as Lord Hailes some years ago observed to Mr. Malone, " a description which JCneas... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 Seiten
...J It is remarkable that Mr. Cray has employed somewhat the same image tn characterise Dryden. lie, indeed, furnishes his car with but two horses ; but...fields of glory bear " Two coursers of ethereal race, He added, " These are all of which I can be sure." They bear a small proportion to the »hole, which... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 Seiten
...saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. ' Shxkespear. • Milton. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide...of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 Seiten
...with but two horses; but they are of " ethereal race :" " Rcliokl where Dryden's less presumptuons car, " Wide o'er the fields of glory bear " Two coursers of ethereal race, He added, " These are all of which I can be sure." They bear a small proportion to the whole, which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 Seiten
...all our own." I It is remarkable that Mr. Gray has employed somewhat the same image to characterise Dryden. He, indeed, furnishes his car with but two...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long resounding pace." Ode on the Progress nf Poesy. He added, " These are all of which... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 Seiten
...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...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, Scatters... | |
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