| Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - English literature - 1860 - 468 pages
...infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues , unborrow'd of the sun ; Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond...Beneath the good how far — but far above the great. VI. THE BARD. PINDAKIC. ADVEBTISEMENT. — The following ode i3 founded on a tradition current in Wales,... | |
| John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...glitter in the muse's ray With orient hues, unborrowed of the sun; Yet shall he mount, and kcrphis distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far—but far above the great. •Milton. t flammantli mecnia mundi.—Lucretius. t For i he spirit... | |
| James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond...Beneath the good how far — but far above the great. * Milton. f Pindar. 384 THE BARD. PINDARIC.* " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond...fate, Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Gre:it. GRAY. Inspimtion. MOST sweet it is with unnpltfted eyes To pace the ground, if path there be... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond...the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the Good how far—but far above the Great. CXLI THE PASSIONS An Ode for Music T. Gray When Music, heavenly maid,... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond...Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great. T. Gray CXLI THE PASSIONS An Ode for Music WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early... | |
| Max Kaluza - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun: Yet shall he mount and keep his distant way Beyond...Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great. Congreve (1706) also wrote several regular Pindaric odes ; cp. Schipper, II 818 ff . and Aldeu, p.... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...194 30 He saw: but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. (1. 100-101) 31 . (1. 120-122) AWP; EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOEC; OBEY JULIAN GRENFELL (1888-1915) Into Battle 1 And he is... | |
| Ernst A. Schmidt - Authors and readers - 1996 - 500 pages
...eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, 120 With orient hues, unborrow'd of the Sun: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond...Beneath the Good how far - but far above the Great. 8. William Collins (1746) Ode on the Poetical Character Strophe As once, if not with light regard,... | |
| Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...that come to it after him, just as Winter's place is unattainable by the mariner. Gray's Milton "shall mount and keep his distant way / Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate. . . .48 For Collins, the trope of Milton looking down, like Blake's Winter, from a throne unattainable... | |
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