 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, and long-resounding pace. Hark, his...  Undine [tr.] from the Germ. by the author of 'Night' - Seite xiivon Friedrich Heinrich K. freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué - 1858Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 412 Seiten
...' Two courfers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long-refounding III. 3. [Pace" Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts, that breathe, and words, that burn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more — Oh ! Lyre... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 Seiten
...Two couriers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long-refounding III. 3. [PaceHark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts, that breathe, and words, that burn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more — Oh ! Lyre... | |
 | 1799 - 616 Seiten
...this country ? Gray gives a reprefentation of Faacf Your's,&c. LiBERHoMO. that feems quite original. Hark! his hands the lyre explore! > Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her piclur'd urn Thoughts, that breathe, and words, that burn. Progr. of Poefff There is fomething bold... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 Seiten
...Milton. Two Coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts, that breathe, and words, that burn. *But ah! 'tis heard no more Oh! Lyre divine,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 Seiten
...Glory bear Two Coursers of ethereal race, Withnecks in thunder cloth'd, andlong-resoundingpace III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more Oh ! Lyre divine,... | |
 | 1814 - 572 Seiten
...It is in this stimulated state of mind that the fancy acquires splendour, animation, and vigour, and scatters from her pictured urn " Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." Ideas in a vivid state necessarily obtain notice in preference to ideas in a faint state; and, being... | |
 | 1814 - 578 Seiten
...It is in this stimulated state of mind that the fancy acquires splendour, animation, and vigour, and scatters from her pictured urn " Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." Ideas in a vivid state necessarily obtain notice in preference to ideas in a faint state ; and, being... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 Seiten
...of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy,...pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more — — ' " corpore quadrate," as Lord Hailes some years ago observed to... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 Seiten
...bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. k But ah ! 'tis heard no more — Oh ! lyre... | |
 | 1842 - 614 Seiten
...English. Horace evidently alludes to them in speaking of the "Fontificum libros, annom volumtna Vatum." Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her...pictured urn, Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. This may well be called the art " pvlchre placitandi," and its practitioners " Aeau-pleaders." It is... | |
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