 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
 | Children's poetry, English - 1889 - 552 pages
...coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed,1 and long-resounding pace. HI.— 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 296 pages
...bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resouniling 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 — O lyre divine,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1891 - 200 pages
...64. 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. 110 But ah ! 'tis heard no more. Oh ! Lyre... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry - 110 pages
...bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. in. 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 ! 't is heard no more O lyre divine... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1894 - 252 pages
...Coursers of ethereal race,1 105 With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long-resounding pace.'2 III. 3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts, that breath, and words, that burn.8 no But ah ! 'tis heard no more 4 Oh ! Lyre... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 618 pages
...with a regret that the lyre once held by the lastnamed 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... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1894 - 432 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. THOMAS GRAY : The Progress of Poesy, III.... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - English poetry - 1894 - 376 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— Gray. O lyre... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1895 - 190 pages
...Two coursers of ethereal race, 105 With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace. 111.3. 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. :io But ah ! 'tis heard no more Oh ! lyre... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...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,... | |
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