 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze, To mark the windings of a scanty rill, That murmurs at his feet ? The high-bern soul Disdains to rest her Heav'n-aspiring wing Beneath it's native quarry. Tir'd of earth... | |
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 516 pages
...Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet? however just as to the prospects of nature, is not applicable to the efforts of Christian benevolence,... | |
 | Charles Burroughs - 1829 - 212 pages
...moments, than the memory could furnish in a long time. The soul, elevated by the imagination — " springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying storm ; Rides on the volley'd lightning thro' the heavens 4 Sweeps the long tract of day ; — then high she soars The blue... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 618 pages
...Akenside, who had himself caught, in his favorite Greek studies, the spirit of these philosophers. ' The high-born soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry. Tired of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn bis gaze hcaven-appirm^ wing Beneath its native quarry. Tired of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft... | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 1830 - 586 pages
...— « The high-born Soul Disdains to rest her Heav'n-aspiring wing Beneath it's native quarry. Tired of earth, And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft...; Through fields of air pursues the flying storm, And, yoked with whirlwinds, and the northern blast, Sweeps the long track of day." This passage, however,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Poets, English - 1832 - 328 pages
...Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill, That murmurs at his feet ?" BI v. 151—183. These admirable lines are founded on a passage in Longinus* ; which the poet acknowledges... | |
 | John McVickar - 1832 - 134 pages
...Through mountains, rocks and deserts, black with shade, And continents of sand, would turn his gaze, And mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet V " • The warm reception he met with from his relatives in the Valley, and the varied amusements... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...to continue my search ; and I follow in the way in which you go before. MILTON'S LETTER TO DEODATI. The highborn soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspiring...of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft. — AKENSIDE. Our hearts ne'er bow but to superior worth, Nor ever fail of their allegiance there.... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1835 - 416 pages
...[shade, Thro' mountains, plains, thro' empires black with And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet ? The high-bora soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry. Tir'd of earth... | |
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Tired of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields of air, pursues the flying storm, Rides on the vollied lightning through the heavens ; Or, yoked with whirlwinds, and the northern blast, Sweeps the long tract of day. 
