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" Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. "
John Randolph, of Roanoke: And Other Sketches of Character, Including ... - Page 174
by Frederick William Thomas - 1853 - 375 pages
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Letters Written by the Late Earl of Chatham to His Nephew Thomas Pitt ...

William Pitt - 1804 - 330 pages
...rapture, exclaims, " 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." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the op6av«» ^ a^™) by Gray himself, or...
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The Anonymous, Volume 2

English essays - 1810 - 286 pages
...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 Red Cross has been contemplating celestial...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2

John Walker - 1811 - 554 pages
...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 the art of minstrelsy in recompence:...
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Observations on the Writings and on the Character of Mr. Gray: Originally ...

Thomas James Mathias - Pastoral poetry, English - 1815 - 196 pages
...rapture, exclaims, " 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." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the oip8a*/*«» p» a^oV) by Gray himself,...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 4

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...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.' But it was the light of the body only, that was extinguished : the * celestial light shone inward,'...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 4

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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.' But it was the light of the body only, that was extinguished: the ' celestial light shone inward,'...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 17

1853 - 636 pages
...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 biographer. In a manuscript Commentary...
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The Monthly repository (and review)., Volume 17

1822 - 858 pages
...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."* To these srlowing eulogies on the illustrious Priestley, iiiay be added 221 those contained in the...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 17

Liberalism (Religion) - 1822 - 824 pages
...of place and time : The living throne, the sapphire bla/c, Where angels tremble, while they ga/r, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' " To these plowing eulogies on tlie illustrious Priestley, may be aUtleJ 220 221 fhnse contained in...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...space and time : The li ving throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with 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...
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