...himself in those forceful lines in the Progress of Poesy, in which he alludes to the poet's blindness : " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." There is a passage in Longinus which appears to me to have furnished Milton with the germ of this thought....

...himself in those forceful lines in the Progress of Poesy, in which he alludes to the poet's blindness : " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." There is a passage in Longinus which appears to me to have furnished Milton with the germ of this thought....

...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...they gaze, He saw: but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night." But it was the light of the Lody only that was extinguished : "The...

...seraph-wings of Eestacy The secrets of the abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...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...

...conceptions, and pass beyond the limits of this world to build his immortal poem. Yet, though he saw " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze," he could descend with modesty from empyreal scenes to take his share in the common-place duties of life,...

...seraph-wings of Extasy, 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 tremble while they gaze, 100 He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's...

...wings of Ecstasy', The secrets of the abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time : The living Throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...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 coursers2 of ethereal...

...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,...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...

...abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of space and time: The living-throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw ; but...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 etherea?...

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