 | William Pitt - 1804 - 330 pàgines
...mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, HE saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the op6av«» ^ a^™) by Gray himself, or... | |
 | 1810 - 286 pàgines
...bounds of Place and Time. The living threne, the sapphire-blaze, Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night."* Again, in Spencer's legend of Holiness, after the Knight of the Red Cross has been contemplating celestial... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pàgines
...bounds of Place and Time: The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw: BUT, BLASTED WITH EXCESS OF LIGHT, CLOSED HIS EYES IN ENDLESS NIGHT. GRAY'S Prog, of Poesy. The former part of this stanza is highly poetical, being strongly imagined and forcibly... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1814 - 190 pàgines
...mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, HE saw: but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the opeatyM p» a^a-,) by Gray himself, or... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pàgines
...bounds of place and time— The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze; He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only, that was extinguished: the ' celestial light shone inward,'... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pàgines
...of place and time — The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze ; He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only, that was extinguished : the * celestial light shone inward,'... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pàgines
...their living idea, as opposed to death, with uses to which they must become metaphorical (ie lesa ival than dead things themselves) before we can so with...saw, but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his «yes in endlese night. Cray'i Barí Nothing was ever more violently distorted, than this material... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pàgines
...bounds of place and time ; The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble as they gaze, He saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Respecting this passage a curious circumstance is revealed 3by Gray's biographer. In a manuscript Commentary... | |
 | 1822 - 858 pàgines
...bounds of place and time : The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night."* To these srlowing eulogies on the illustrious Priestley, iiiay be added 221 those contained in the... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pàgines
...of space and time : The li ving throne, the sapphire-blaze, 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... | |
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Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. 
