 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1768 - 142 pages
...Courfers of ethereal race, }| With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long-re[founding pace. * For the fpirit of the living creature was in the wheels—' And above...the firmament, that was over their heads, was the likenefs of a throne, as the appearance of a faphire-flone.^ This was the appearance of the glory of... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...Angels tremble, while they gaze, He * Milton. + " flammantia mcenia mundi." Lucretius. % For the fpirit of the living creature was in the wheels— And above the firmament, that was over D 5 .their He faw ; but blafted with excefs of light, * Clofed his eyes in endlefs night. Behold, where... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1770 - 136 pages
...Courfers of ethereal race, •With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long-refounding pace. * For the fpirit of the living creature was in the wheels — And above...the firmament, that was over their heads, was the likenefs of a throne, as the appearance of a faphire-ftone. — This was the appearance of the glory... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1778 - 182 pages
...tremble, while they gaze, * Milton. t " — — flammantia mocnia mundi." LUCRETIUS. J For the fpirit of the living creature was in the wheels. — And...above the firmament that was over their heads, was the likenefs of a throne, as the appearance of a fapphire ftone. - This was the appearance of the glory... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 390 pages
...that was over their heads, was the likenefs of a throne, as the appearance . of a fapphire-ftone.— This was the appearance of the glory of the Lord. Ezekiel i. 20, 26, 28. •f "O^EUtyuiii fj.lt ay.i(fft' $,£x J1' r^ucai U.CH$W. HOM.Oo. J Meant to expreis the ftately march... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1782 - 438 pages
...P -Milton. G. 1 IMITATION. ———Flammantia mania mundi. * IMITATION. Lucreliai. Tor the fpirit of the living creature was in the wheels, and above the firmament that was over their heads, was the likenefs of a throne, as the appearance of a fapphire-ftone—this was the appearance of the glory... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1786 - 210 pages
...0 T S. was oyer their heads, was the likenefs. of a throne, as the appearance of a fapphire ftone. —This was the appearance of the glory of the Lord. Ezekiel i. 20, 26, 28. P. 90. Clos'd bis eyes iff endjefs night.~\ 'O09aX/*ut> plv K/tipfff SiSs <T *SiHtt.v a0i<Jijv. . .... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...Thoughts, that breathe, and words, that burn. ** But ah ! 'tis heard no more — '* For the fpirit of the living creature was in the wheels — And above...the firmament, that was over their heads, was the likenefs of a throne, as the appearance of a fapphire.ftone. — This was the Appearance of the glory... | |
 | Arminianism - 1848 - 726 pages
...recorded in chap. i. : " And above the firmament that was over their heads" (meaning the cherubim) " was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone ; and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. And... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...of Place andTime. ** flammantia mcenia mundi." Lucretius. fxj The living throne, the sapphire blaze. For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels....sapphire stone.— This was the appearance of the Jlory of the Lord. Eukit 1 i. 20, 26, 28. He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light [9], Clos'd his... | |
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And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. 
