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 of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. Imaginative Biography - Seite 207von Sir Egerton Brydges - 1834Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Pitt - 1804 - 330 Seiten
...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, HE saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph wings of ectasy, The secrets of lh' abyss to spy. eath thus more dreadO what a ridicule of absurdity...our chariot wheels : How heavily we drag the load blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous... | |
| 1809 - 402 Seiten
...the seraph wing* of ecstasy, The secrets of th* 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, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less, presumptuous... | |
| James Ridgway - 1813 - 470 Seiten
...caat a kind of shade upon most of the other works of man-— 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, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd bis eyes hi endless night. But it was the light of... | |
| 1813 - 496 Seiten
...the scrnph-wings of ccstacy, The eccreti of ill' abyss to spy ; He pa»'d 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 of light, C'Josuil bin eyes in endless uighi. Miss Eve. How would you describe... | |
| Thomas James Mathias - 1815 - 190 Seiten
...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, HE saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 Seiten
...has cast a kind of shade upon all the after-works of man-: ' 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 blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 Seiten
...has cast a kind of shade upon all the after-works of man : ' 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 blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only,... | |
| sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1821 - 312 Seiten
...Dante. Gray has said of Milton in congenial language , that « He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time. » The living throne, the sapphire blaze,...! » But there are many human interests in Dante's poeui, which Milton's plan would not admit. With regard to equality, and all ihat can be done by skill... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 Seiten
...the seraph wings of Eestasy, The secrets of th' 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, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Drj den's less presumptuous... | |
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