 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 - Page 2921799Full view - About this book
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding 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 born. tBttt ah 1 'tis heard no more * Shakapeare.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...Two coursers of ethereal race, 105 With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. 110 Ver. 102. Closed his eyes in endless night.]... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...clothed] " Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?" JOB. — This verse and the foregoin; 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth 'd and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. k But ah ! 'tis heard no more — Oh ! lyre... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 't is heard no more Oh ! lyre divine,... | |
 | Ireland - 1839 - 812 pages
...Anaereon. If yon like ibis paper 1 may probably supply you from time to time with others. ANACREON. " 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, " Anacreon non solum dedit hoc... | |
 | 1839 - 842 pages
...Anacreon. If you like this paper I may probably supply you frotn time to time with others. ANACREON. " 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. " Auacreon non solum dcdit hoc... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...glory bare Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. GoS 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...foregoing are meant to express the stately inarch and sounding energy of Dryden'a rhymes. C HI. 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,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...Glory bear Two coursers of etherial 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." Dryden's plays and poems are not much read,... | |
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