| William Pitt - 1804 - 330 pages
...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... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...seraph wings of ectasy, The secrets of lh' abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of space and time, ty ! ful made. Leisure is pain ; take off our chariot wheels : How heavily we He saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...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... | |
| James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas James Mathias - Pastoral poetry, English - 1815 - 190 pages
...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... | |
| Decoration and ornament - 1813 - 496 pages
...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... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...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 Dryden's... | |
| 1821 - 732 pages
...failure, from an enterprise surpassing mortal power, Hut he did more than ever has been done by man. " The living throne — the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw — and, blasted with excess of lipht, Closed his eyes in endless night." There is an offence... | |
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