 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
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1875 - 356 pages
...Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race I lark, 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 • O ! Lyre divine,... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...Two Coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. ni. 3Hark, 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 — O Lyre divine... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1876 - 162 pages
...Two coursers of ethereal race, 105 With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resoundfng pace. III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fa"ncy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more Oh ! lyre divine,... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...Two coursers of ethereal* race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long resounding pace. 95 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 : O lyre divine,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. HL 3Hark, 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. 1n. 3Hark, 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,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...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, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more — О Lyre divine... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...more vigorous make, To serve my God when I awake . . . GRAY. 1716-1771. ON DRYDEN. Progress of Poesy. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. MRS. ELIZABETH HAMILTON. 1759-1816. Memoirs... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 pages
...bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. 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 divine,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Authors, English - 1882 - 246 pages
...a regret that the lyre once held by the last-named poet has degenerated into hands like Gray's :— 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... | |
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