| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph wings of ectasy, The secrets of lh' abyss to spy. eath thus more dreadO what a ridicule of absurdity...made. Leisure is pain ; take off our chariot wheels while they gaze, He saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold,... | |
| 1853 - 640 pages
...abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time ; The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble as they gaze, He saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Respecting this passage a curious circumstance is revealed 3by Gray's... | |
| Alexander Laing - 1828 - 492 pages
...Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph wings of extacy, The secrets of the 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 saw1. " ' GRAY. This is more of their frothy tales : but to proceed. " Sacred to... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph wings of ecstacy, The secrets of th' abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of space and time, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, IJo Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes... | |
| University of London, R. E. Grant - Essays - 1829 - 374 pages
...one, ' Who rode sublime Upon the seraph wings of ecstacy — The secrets of th' abyss to spy He past the flaming bounds of space 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 *.' Here... | |
| William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 pages
...Nor second he, that rode sublime, Upon the seraph wings of ecstacy, The secrets of th' 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, &c. (See Ezekiel i. 26, and x. 1. The same poet also has, — With arms sublime... | |
| John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 pages
...that love has none. It extends, " Beyond the flaming bounds of space and time." It reaches from, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, " Where angels tremble as they gaze, to man's humblest habitation. Lift up your eyes and behold this vast world, the product of his power... | |
| Charterhouse - 1833 - 314 pages
...154. Nor second He that rode sublime On seraph-wings of ecstasy ; The secrets of the abyss to spy ; He pass'd the flaming bounds of space and time. The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Ora Dei, et veras aeterni luminis arces. Esto : at nequidquam distinguere somnia vero Haec juvat, erroresque... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Biography - 1834 - 312 pages
...than any thing which was attempted by Dante. Gray has said of Milton, in congenial language, that " 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 there are many human interests in Dante's poem which Milton's plan would... | |
| Archibald Bell - Essays - 1835 - 456 pages
...this which constitutes the blemish in Gray's allusion to Milton, in the Ode on the Progress of Poesy ; The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...gaze, He saw; — but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. Even so correct a writer as Boileau (whom Addison declares incapable... | |
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