 Yet, might your aid this anxious breast inspire With one faint spark of Milton's seraph fire, Then should my Muse ascend with bolder flight, And wave her eagle-plumes exulting in the light.  Oxford English Prize Poems - Seite 47von University of Oxford - 1828 - 191 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1804 - 476 Seiten
...fire, Then should my muse ascend with bolder flight, And wave her eagle wing exulting- in the light. O happy once in Heaven's peculiar love, Delight of men below and gods above! Tho' Salem ! now, the spoiler's ruffian hand Has loos'd his hell-hounds o'er thy wasted... | |
 | 1803 - 502 Seiten
...fire, Then should my Muse ascend with bolder flight *, And wave her eagle-plumes exulting in the light. O happy once in heaven's peculiar love, Delight of...storms of fate, Thy house is left unto thee desolate -f- ; 40 Though thy proud stones in cumbrous ruin fall, -And seas of sand o'ertop thy mouldering wall;... | |
 | 1803 - 520 Seiten
...Canaan hail; Her eagle eye shall scan the prospect wide, From Carmel's cliffs to Almotana's tide § ; 50 O happy once in heaven's peculiar love, Delight of...storms of fate, Thy house is left unto thee desolate f; 40 The flinty waste, the cedar-tufted hill, The liquid health of smooth Ardeni's rill; The grot,... | |
 | 1803 - 508 Seiten
...fire, Then should my Muse ascend with bolder flight *, And wave her eagle-plumes exulting in the light. O happy once in heaven's peculiar love, Delight of...hell-hounds o'er thy wasted land ; Though weak, and whelni'd beneath the storms of fate, Thy house is left unto thee desolate f ; 40 Though thy proud stones... | |
 | 1804 - 400 Seiten
...particularly sacred in the mere verbal arrangement of a translation) we cannot assign any adequate reason : " O happy once in heaven's peculiar love", Delight of men below, and saints above ! Though, Salem, now tlie spoiler's ruffian hand H;is loos'd his hell-hounds o'er thy wasted land ; Though weak, and whclnfd... | |
 | 1807 - 530 Seiten
...fire, Then should my Muse ascend with bolder flight, And wave her eagle-wing exulting in the light. O happy once in heaven's peculiar love, Delight of men below, and saints aboYe! Tho1 Salem, now, the spoiler's ruffian hand Has loos'd his hell-hounds o'er thy wasted land... | |
 | Oxford univ, prize poems - 1807 - 126 Seiten
...fire, Then fhould my Mufe ' afcend with bolder flight, And wave her eagle-wing exulting in the light. O happy once in heaven's peculiar love, Delight of men below, and faints above ! Tho', Salem, now, the fpoiler's ruffian hand Has loos'd his hell-hounds o'er thy wafted... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1810 - 186 Seiten
...the light. O happy once in heaven's peculiar love, 4 Delight of men below, and saints above ! Tho', Salem, now, the spoiler's ruffian hand Has loos'd his hell-hounds o'er thy wasted land ; Tho' weak, and whelm'd beneath the storms of fate, ' See Sandys, and other travellers into Asia.... | |
 | Oxford univ, prize poems - 1810 - 204 Seiten
...fire, Then should my Muse' ascend with bolder flight, And wave her eagle-plumes exulting in the light. O happy once in heaven's peculiar love, Delight of men below, and saints above ! Tho', Salem, now, the spoiler's ruffian hand Has loos'd his hell-hounds o'er thy wasted laud ; Tho'... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 Seiten
...my Muse ascend with bolder flight, And weave her eagle plumes exulting in the light. O happy oncein heaven's peculiar love, Delight of men below, and...storms of "Fate, Thy house is left unto thee desolate ; Though thy proud stones in cumb'rous ruin fall, And seas of sand o'ertop thy mould'ring wall; Yet... | |
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