 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 pages
...with every act of life, ascending with Milton to those immortal heights of light, love and glory : " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze." In efforts to do this, what stores of wealth are there in genius, eloquence, poetry, profound erudition,... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1849 - 504 pages
...described with gieat force and beauty by Mr. Gray : — " He passed rhe flaming boomta of plaes miJ lime ' The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, Me saw ; but blasted with excess of light. Closed ius eyes in eudlettt) uigUL* SECTION III. On the... | |
 | 1851 - 582 pages
...himself in those forceful lines in the Progress of Poesy, in which he alludes to the poet's blindness : " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." There is a passage in Longinus which appears to me to have furnished Milton with the germ of this thought.... | |
 | 1851 - 568 pages
...himself in those forceful lines in the Progress of Poesy, in which he alludes to the poet's blindness : " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." There is a passage in Longinus which appears to me to have furnished Milton with the germ of this thought.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...of shade upon most of the other works of man — " He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time : The living Throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...they gaze, He saw: but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night." But it was the light of the Lody only that was extinguished : "The... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...seraph-wings of Eestacy The secrets of the abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with exccess of light, , Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide... | |
 | 1851 - 508 pages
...conceptions, and pass beyond the limits of this world to build his immortal poem. Yet, though he saw " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze," he could descend with modesty from empyreal scenes to take his share in the common-place duties of life,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pages
...seraph-wings of Extasy, The secrets of th' 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, 100 He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...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. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear Two coursers2 of ethereal... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 pages
...abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of space 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 etherea?... | |
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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... 
