 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 str.
...his car with but two horses ; but they are of " ethereal race : " — " Behold where Dryden's U?ss presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necki in thunder clothed, and long mounding pace." JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, the truth is, they both drive... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 str.
...sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. MILTON. 2. Dryden ! Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. GRAY— The Bard. 3. The Poet blind yet bold... | |
 | 1947 - 666 str.
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 | 1854 - 562 str.
...tremble as they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd bis eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth' d and longresounding pace." My object, however, in this paper is to show our young friends the... | |
 | 1886 - 574 str.
...memorably eulogizing Milton, describes Dryden's heroic couplet in these sonorous lines : — BeholJ, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the...of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race. With necka in thunder cloth'd and long-resounding pace. It is useful thus to look at these two passages... | |
| 1943 - 410 str.
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 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 str.
...Perseverance keeps honor bright. Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. A NEW GEM at HOME. 54. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. The Progress of Poesy. GRAY. 65. To gild refined... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 str.
...Perseverance keeps honor bright. Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. A NEW GEM at HOME. 54. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. The Progress of Poesy. GRAY. 55. To gild refined... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 str.
...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 o'er...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. The 'Ode to Eton College,' the 'Ode to Adversity,' and the far-famed... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 str.
...while they gaze, 100 He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide...fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, V. 98. " Flammantia moeniamundi," Lucret. i. 74. Gray. See also Stat. Silv. iv. 3. 156 : " Ultra sidera,... | |
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Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with 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 race, With necks in thunder clothed,... 
