| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 páginas
...furnishes his car with but two horses; but they are of " ethereal race:" " Behold where Dryden'i Ian re abundant instances in these volumes to show that ha was not exempt from that ami [pace." With neclu In thunder clothed, and long resounding Ode on the Progregg ofPoefy BOSWKLI, * [Johnson,... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 páginas
...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...necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 páginas
...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...necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-ey'd Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 páginas
...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...ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long resounding pace. PERFUMES. NATURE affords not satisfaction to the eye and to the ear only ; she... | |
| 1839 - 812 páginas
...Anaereon. If yon like ibis paper 1 may probably supply you from time to time with others. ANACREON. " Hark ! his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." — Gray, " Anacreon non solum dedit hoc... | |
| 1839 - 842 páginas
...Anacreon. If you like this paper I may probably supply you frotn time to time with others. ANACREON. " Hark ! his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." — Gray. " Auacreon non solum dcdit hoc... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...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 bare Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. GoS Hark,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 páginas
...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...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Ver. 95. JVor second He, that rode sublime] MILTON. Ver. 99. The... | |
| Laughton Osborn - 1841 - 430 páginas
...inferiority of the language in which the imitator wrote. Secondly, in the eighth strophe, we hare : " Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of etherial race, With necks in thundir eloth'd, and long-resounding pace." In this very beautiful passage,... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 páginas
...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, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." Dryden's plays and poems are not much read,... | |
| |