 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1852 - 274 pages
...flaming bounds of space and time. The living throne — the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble as they gaze, He saw ; — but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night ! "' He was tiltimus Romanorum — the last giant product of the Covenanting energy — and his failure... | |
 | 1842 - 676 pages
...moderate elevation ; but the " eagle of Meaux " soars with an unbounded flight, and seems to hover around The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze. Or, to change the figure to one of his own, he is like " a lofty mountain, whose summit, towering above... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...seraph-wings of Ecstasy The secrete of the Abyss to spy: He passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time: 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... | |
 | David Knowles, Dom David Knowles - 1979 - 542 pages
...with the inward eye the line of his progeny, like Banquo's issue, stretching to the crack of doom : He saw: but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.5 Seen more soberly in the contemporary Jacobean daylight, the meeting of late November appears... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...awful face: (1. 82-86) 29 Nor second He, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy 193 194 30 ity Press (1. 100-101) 31 Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate: Beneath... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...of th' Abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living Throne, the saphire blaze, Where Angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. 8 Written 1784; from book iv, 11. 709-17, quoted from Poems (1800),... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 pages
...to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living Throne, the sapphire-blaze, 100 Where Angels tremble while they gaze. He saw; but...excess of light. Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Drydcn's less presumptuous car. Wide o'er the fields of glory bear 1 05 Two coursers... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...Keynes (1957). 2 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. (written 1754, published 1757). Repr. in Poetical Works, ed. J. Rogers (1953). 3 Milton, Madam, was... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 pages
...reached to the highest heavens: like Milton, — " He passed the flaming bounds of place and time ; The living throne, the sapphire blaze Where angels- tremble while they gaze, HE 8AW"— Everywhere his poetry abounds in celestial imagery. If Galileo had been a poet as well as an... | |
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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... 
