| John Aikin - 1821 - 358 Seiten
...hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 't is heard no more — Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit...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 hues, unborrow'd of the Sun... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 Seiten
...3. Hark, his bands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her piclur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But...inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theuan eagle bear, Sailing w ilh supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air: Yet oft before his... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 284 Seiten
...Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn I9 . But ah ! 'tis heard no more ! ° Oh! Lyre divine,...with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air: 14 For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. And above the f1rmament that was over their... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 Seiten
...stately march and sounding energy of Drydeu's rhymes. Y Hast thoy clothed his neck with thunder ? Job. But ah ! 'tis heard no more* Oh ! Lyre divine, what...inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Thehan Eagle bear 4 Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air: Yet oft before his... | |
| 1863 - 1198 Seiten
...pace. Hark ! his hands the lyre explore ; Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. " But ah ! 'tis heard no more : O lyre divine ! what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion,... | |
| 1823 - 734 Seiten
...restraints the double rhyme sometimes appears, and not without grace, in our lyric poetry ; as here, O lyre divine ! what daring spirit Wakes thee now ?...with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air. — Gray. But the most suitable place for the exhibition of double rhymes is where ludicrous subjects... | |
| 1823 - 872 Seiten
...III. 3Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-ey'd fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But...more — Oh ! Lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes tin с now ! tho' he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the The ban eagle bear, Sailing... | |
| William Banks - 1823 - 462 Seiten
...love. " Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. But,...heard no more — Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit AA 3 Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-ey'd Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictur'd rbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues,...throne, And abut the gates of mercy on mankind ; infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unboirow'd of the... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 Seiten
...chortle, tad with a masterly hand. in tome of his Choruses,— above all to ** last of Caractacns ; Oh ! lyre divine, what daring Spirit Wakes thee now...pinion, •That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with gupreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms,... | |
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