Nor second he that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of th' abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess... Sermons and Addresses Delivered in America - Página 296por Frederic William Farrar - 1885 - 364 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| James Ridgway - 1813 - 470 páginas
...kind of shade upon most of the other works of man-— He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze. Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw,—but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd bis eyes hi endless night. But it was the light of... | |
| Thomas James Mathias - 1815 - 190 páginas
...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the op9aty«n ps, a^a.,) by Gray himself,... | |
| 1813 - 496 páginas
...scrnph-wings of ccstacy, The eccreti of ill' abyss to spy ; He pa»'d the flaming bounds of place and time, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...gaze; He saw— but blasted with excess of light, C'Josuil bin eyes in endless uighi. Miss Eve. How would you describe the talents of our best actor,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 páginas
...kind of shade upon all the after-works of man : ' He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time — The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only, that was extinguished : the * celestial light shone inward,'... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 páginas
...kind of shade upon all the after-works of man-: ' He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time— The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only, that was extinguished: the ' celestial light shone inward,'... | |
| Thomas Bayly Howell - 1819 - 736 páginas
...pass'd the flaming bound• of plnce ami time : The living throne, tlte sapphire bUzi-, Where angefs tremble while they gaze, He saw, — but, blasted with excess of light, Ctos'd his eyes m endless nighu But it was the light of the RODY only that was extinguished : " The... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 páginas
...abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time : The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. ' Shxkespear. • Milton. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 páginas
...wings of Eestasy, The secrets of th' abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Drj den's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 páginas
...wings of Eestasy, The secrets of th' abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...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 o'er the fields... | |
| 1821 - 732 páginas
...failure, from an enterprise surpassing mortal power, Hut he did more than ever has been done by man. " The living throne — the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw — and, blasted with excess of lipht, Closed his eyes in endless night." There is an offence which... | |
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