 | Josiah Quincy - 1840 - 760 pages
...the coloring of poetry to declare, that 'They passed the flaming bounds of place and time,' and saw ' The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze.' " Mr. President, I will not detain you or the company any longer. I beg leave to offer as a toast,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...of the abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphiie blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw...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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...Abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time, The living Throne, the sapphire-blaze. Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but....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... | |
 | 1842 - 440 pages
...GREEK CLASSICS. ness, that the astonished bard became blind in the act of devout contemplation : " He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in emiless night." From Ithaca Homer is said to have gone to Italy. Wherever he went ho recited his verses,... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - 1843 - 224 pages
...seraph-wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of the abyss to spy ; He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: — The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' " E. — " There is something Miltonic in that noble motet — pity that so grand a swell should so... | |
 | C. Palfrey - 1839 - 448 pages
...doubtless, the subject of his untiring research. Milton — " passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze. " Doubtless the same ardent imagination still gives his spirit a higher flight, a wider range, a clearer... | |
 | 1843 - 234 pages
...fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. He passed the flaming bounds of place and time. The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, Nor second he,t that rode sublime Upon the seraph wings of ecstacy: The secrets of the abyss to spy,... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - 1844 - 294 pages
...seraph-wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of the abyss to spy ; He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: — The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." E. — There is something Miltonic in that noble motet — pity that so grand a swell should so soon... | |
 | 1844 - 428 pages
...reminds us of Gray the poet in describing Milton : — " He passed the flaming bounds of time and space, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light Closed his eyes in endless night." We hope, however, that Jethro, more fortunate than the great poet, will only have transcient dimness... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...abyss, to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of space and tin* I The living-throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endlesn night. * Sfatktpeare. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory... | |
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Nor second he that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of th' abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess... 
