 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pàgines
...• Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now? Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bare, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pàgines
...divine ! what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Not the pride, nor ample pinion, Which the Theban eagle bare, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air." Progress of Poesy. Where can measures more noble than the foregoing be found in any modern tongue ?... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pàgines
...divine ! what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Not the pride, nor ample pinion, Which the Theban eagle bare, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air." Progress of Poesy. Where can measures more noble than the foregoing be found in any modern tongue 1... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pàgines
...largest. There is nothing wide and comprehensive in his intellectual range — nothing of "the ample pinion That the Theban eagle bare, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air," in his poetical flights. He has a remarkable alacrity at sinking. Quiet scenes, and soft characters,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pàgines
...— O ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bare, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues,... | |
 | William Smith - 1860 - 718 pàgines
...beautifully expressed in the lines of Gray: — " The pride and ample pinion That the Thehan eagle hare, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep...of this epoch whom we need mention are Ibycus and Bacehylides. Ibycus was a native of Rhegium, and flourished towards the middle of the sixth century... | |
 | William Smith - 1863 - 780 pàgines
...been beautifully expressed in the lines of Gray : — " The pride and ample pinion That the Thebaa eagle bare, Sailing with supreme dominion Through...epoch whom we need mention are Ibycus and Bacchylides. Ibycug was a native of Rhegium, and flourished towards the middle of the sixth century before the Christian... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1876 - 424 pàgines
...which Gray has turned to a vejy graceful, happy use in the following lines : " The pride and ample pinion That the Theban eagle bare, Sailing with supreme dominion, Through the azure deep of air." The poetry of Gray is small in quantity, but it is grand in quality. His two Pindaric odes, " The Progress... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pàgines
...more— Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes tnee now ? Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle* bare, Sailing with supreme dominion, Through the azure deep of air: Yet oft before 6 his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muses' ray, With orient hues,... | |
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Pindar is marked by daring flights and abrupt transitions, and became proverbial for its sublimity. He compared himself to an eagle, — a simile which has been beautifully expressed in the lines of Gray : — " The pride and ample pinion That the Theban... 
