 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 страници
...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 etherial race, With necks in thunder clothed," and long-resounding pace. 1 Milton. 2 "For the spirit... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 страници
...while they gaze, 100 He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear IM Two coursers of ethereal race, [pace. With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding V. 98.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 страници
...they gaze, 100 He saw ; but, blasted with exeess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Bchold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear 104 Two coursers of ethereal raee, [paee. With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding V. 98.... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 страници
...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...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,... | |
 | L. P. Wilkinson - 1969 - 392 страници
...ff., 9. 81 ; P. 10. 65 ; N. 1. 7 ; /. 2. 1 f. ; 5. 38 ; fr. 124 a. Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy: Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide...Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and loud-resounding pace. The idea that a poet must go a new way ('temptanda via est', etc.)... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 страници
...admires it greatly, he uses an image which suggests that in this poetry metrical rhythm predominates. "Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of heroic race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace." The rhythmical gallop of Dryden's... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 страници
...1 05 Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Epode Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictured urn 1 1 0 Thoughts that breathe, and words that bum. But ah! 'tis heard no more 0 Lyre divine!... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 страници
...it into perfect order. 3 Gray's original describes how Dryden was inspired by "Bright-eyed Fancy": Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. 4 It is Gray's aesthetic mode that dominates... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 страници
...characterise Dryden. He, indeed, furnishes his car with but two horses, but they are of 'ethereal race': 'Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car. Wide o'er the fields of glory Dear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long resounding pace'. Ode... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 страници
...no longer be heard, and though Gray has a prominent place for Dryden in his Progress of Poesy, who "Wide o'er the fields of glory, bear / Two coursers of ethereal race, / With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace" (lines 1o4-o6), neither Gray nor any of his contemporaries could... | |
| |
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 race, With necks in thunder clothed,... 
