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 hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy... The Monthly Magazine - Página 2921799Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Readings - 1843 - 466 páginas
...race 15 , With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Upon the seraph-wings of ecstacy, Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er Scatters from her pictured urn But, ah! 'tis heard no more.— Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. Wakes thee... | |
| Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 páginas
...day, and night to night, of some new-discovered excellence revealed in the manifold works of God. " Hark ! his hands the lyre explore. Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn, Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." Fancy, as a bright-eyed, embodied spirit,... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 páginas
...— where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wite. The same is true of the following fine image : 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 beauties and deficiencies of Gray, both... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1847 - 362 páginas
...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, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn." Sir William Temple, Locke, Stillingfleet,... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 páginas
...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... | |
| Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 páginas
...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... | |
| Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 páginas
...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... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 páginas
...glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race,t With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 't is heard no more — O ! lyre... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...bear Two coursers2 of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. ra. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that barn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more — 3 O lyre divine,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 páginas
...was the appearance of the glory of the Lord." EZEK. i. 20, 26, 28. THE PROGRESS OF POESY. Ill III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more ' Oh ! lyre divine,... | |
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