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... The Poetry of Life - Strana 319podľa Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| William Pitt - 1804 - Počet stránok 330
...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...gaze, HE saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the op6av«»... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - Počet stránok 302
...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. Closed hia eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields... | |
| 1810 - Počet stránok 286
...Abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time. The living threne, the sapphire-blaze, Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night."* Again, in Spencer's legend of Holiness, after the Knight of the... | |
| John Walker - 1811 - Počet stránok 554
...of Ecstacy, 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, CLOSED HIS EYES IN ENDLESS NIGHT. GRAY'S Prog, of Poesy. DEMODOCUS of sight, and to have given him... | |
| James Ridgway - 1813 - Počet stránok 470
...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 - Počet stránok 190
...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...gaze, HE saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the op9aty«n... | |
| 1813 - Počet stránok 496
...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 - Počet stránok 536
...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...they gaze ; He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only, that was extinguished : the... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - Počet stránok 532
...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...they gaze; He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only, that was extinguished: the... | |
| 1821 - Počet stránok 732
...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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