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" 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. "
Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of ... - Page 257
edited by - 1851
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Letters Written by the Late Earl of Chatham to His Nephew Thomas Pitt ...

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...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

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...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

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...
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The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at ..., Volume 2

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...
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Observations on the Writings and on the Character of Mr. Gray: Originally ...

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...
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The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and ...

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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 4

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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 4

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...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

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...
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The Edinburgh Monthly Review, Volume 5

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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