 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...soon obey; So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows, And so to pasture follow through the sea. 16 To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. 1 7 Whether they unctuous exhalations are, Fired by the sun, or seeming so alone : Or each some more... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...Proteus blows, And so to pasture follow through the sea. To see this fleet upon the ocean move, \ngels ; 'Tis Whether they unctuous exhalations are, Fir'd by the Sun, or seeming so alone ; Or each some more remote... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1877 - 468 pages
...flood rise upon the guilty world, And make the ruin common." BEN JOHNSON. Lady Jane Grey, Act IT. " To see this fleet upon the ocean move. Angels drew wide...lights above. For tapers made two glaring comets rise." LESSON XLIII. THE BEAUTIFUL. DKYDEN. § 287. BEAUTY does not afford the imagination so high a degree... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...soon obey; So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows*, And so to pasture follow through the sea. 16 To see this fleet upon the ocean move Angels drew wide...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise; 17 Whether they unctuous exhalations are Fired by the sun, or seeming so alone, Or each some more remote... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - Folklore - 1883 - 436 pages
...for which he is always remarkable, says — " To see that fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew down the curtains of the skies ; And Heaven, as if there...lights above, For tapers, made two glaring comets rise ! " But if we have no comets to boast of in 1870, let not the reader forget that the 14th November... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - Folklore - 1883 - 444 pages
...for which he is always remarkable, says — " To see that fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew down the curtains of the skies ; And Heaven, as if there...lights above, For tapers, made two glaring comets rise ! " But if we have no comets to boast of in 1870, let not the reader forget that the 14th November... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 474 pages
...; — So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows, And so to pasture follow through the sea.* XVI. To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.t published of late (a) ; and, in a short and narrow compass, from the speech made by the Lord-Keeper... | |
 | Anne Mozley - 1892 - 418 pages
...as free with the angels as any Frenchman. They gather to review the king's fleet : — " To see the fleet upon the ocean move Angels drew wide the curtains of the sky, And Heaven, as if there wanted light above, •For tapers, made two glaring comets rise." Now,... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond, George Post Wheeler - English language - 1893 - 224 pages
...looking all over creation for you, etc. Even in poetry there may be an excessive use of them. " To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise." Annus Mirabilis: Dryden. " Give way, and let the gushing torrent come; Behold the tears we bring to... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 480 pages
...; — So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows, And so to pasture follow through the sea.* XVI. To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.t published of late (a); and, in a short and narrow compass, from the speech made by the Lord-Keeper... | |
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To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. 
