 | William Pitt - 1804 - 330 pages
...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 loss of sight in Homer (the op6av«» ^ a^™) by Gray himself, or... | |
 | English essays - 1810 - 286 pages
...bounds of Place and Time. The living threne, the sapphire-blaze, Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night."* Again, in Spencer's legend of Holiness, after the Knight of the Red Cross has been contemplating celestial... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...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. GRAY'S Prog, of Poesy. The former part of this stanza is highly poetical, being strongly imagined and... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1814 - 190 pages
...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 loss of sight in Homer (the opeatyM p» a^a-,) by Gray himself, or... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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, that was extinguished: the ' celestial light shone inward,'... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...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, that was extinguished : the * celestial light shone inward,'... | |
 | 1822 - 858 pages
...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."* To these srlowing eulogies on the illustrious Priestley, iiiay be added 221 those contained in the... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...bounds of place and time ; The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble as they gaze, He saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Respecting this passage a curious circumstance is revealed 3by Gray's biographer. In a manuscript Commentary... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...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. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear Two coursers of ethereal... | |
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Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. 
