 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...abyss to spy. Tie passed the flaming bounds of space and time : Tbe living throne, the sapphire-blaze, has thus eulogised him in one of his most eloquent sentences : — ' Cl'.-sed his eyea in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...formation of his poem— a supposition surely allowable— is poetically truc, and happily imagined." The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...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 coursers1 of ethereal... | |
 | 1854 - 744 pages
...to Milton, may be very beautiful as poetry : — " He passed the flaming bounds of space and time : The living throne ; the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; " — As literal fact, however, this privilege is not permitted to those who are still in the flesh.... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...to Milton in the Progress of Poesy, is striking : 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. Perhaps the popularity of a line depends as much upon the happy choice of words as the ideas it conveys.... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1846 - 592 pages
...described with great force and beauty by Mr. Gray : " 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." SECTION III. On the Pretences Mr. Clayton advances in favour of his Principles. HAVING endeavoured... | |
 | George Vanderhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...abyss to spy. He pass'd the naming 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 ethereal... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847 - 742 pages
...has cast a shade on the other works of man: — ' He pass'il the flaming bounds of place and time, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' " But it was the light of the body only which was extinguished. The celestial light ehone inward, and... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1847 - 362 pages
...wings of ecstasy, The secrets of the abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of space and time . The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 560 pages
...with great force and beauty by Mr. Gray : — " ' 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.' " — pp. 135-138. About two years later, Hall, at the earnest solicitation of highly respected friends,... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pages
...abyss to spy. He pass'd 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 ethereal... | |
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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... 
