 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 страници
...fields of 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...Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 't is heard no more Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now ! Though he inherit Nor the... | |
 | 1839 - 812 страници
...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 страници
...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 - 1840 - 372 страници
...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 страници
...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 - 1842 - 352 страници
...fields of 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,... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 страници
...race 15 , With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Upon the seraph-wings of ecstacy, Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er Scatters from her pictured urn But, ah! 'tis heard no more.— Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. Wakes thee... | |
 | 1844 - 598 страници
...injurious to that exquisite creature of smiles and fantasies, " Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er," who " Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn." He would refer all those graceful, beautiful, and incomparable feigned existences, the exquisite conceptions... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 страници
...day, and night to night, of some new-discovered excellence revealed in the manifold works of God. " Hark ! his hands the lyre explore. Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn, Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." Fancy, as a bright-eyed, embodied spirit,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 страници
...— where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wite. The same is true of the following fine image : Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. The beauties and deficiencies of Gray, both... | |
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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,... 
