 | Samuel Berdmore - 1801 - 144 pages
...apoftrophe : O ! Lyre divine, what daring fpirit Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing...fupreme dominion Through the azure deep of air; Yet Here he quits his original ; thinking, perhaps, the image of a little infect, contrafled with the foaring... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 508 pages
...divine, what daring ipirit Wakes thee no» ? though he inlierit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, f- That the Theban eagle bear Sailing with fupreme dominion Through the azure dei'p of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitttr in the Mufc's ray Wit... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...inherit Nor the pride nor ample pinion, That the Thtban eagle bear, Sailing with fupreme dominion Thro' the azure deep of air: Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Mufc's ray, With orient hues, unborrow'd of the fun, Yet (hail he mount, and keep his diitant way Beyond... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 516 pages
...fuggefted a hint to Gray when, in his Progrefs of Poefy, he wrote • " though he inherit " Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, " That the Theban eagle bear " Sailing...fupreme dominion " Through the azure deep of air." TODD. XLII. 3. his brode failes,] Sails are often ufed by our author for wings ; and after him by Milton.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...below, while it pursues its flight regardless of their noise. C 2 Sailing v. iih supreme dominion Thro' the azure deep of air, Yet oft before his infant eyes would fim Such forma as glitter in the Muses' ray With orient hues, uuborrow'd of the sun ; Yet shall he... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, fThat the Theban Eagle bear Sailing with supreme dominion Thro' the azure deep of air: Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray * We have had in our language no other odes of the sublime kind, than that of Drydeu on... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...the pride nor ample pinion That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Thro' the aaure deep of air, Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muses' ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun; Yet shall he mount and keep his distant way Beyond... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...inherit Nor the pride nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Thro' ling, hoping, ling'ring, flying [ Oh the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fon plittcr in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun, Yet shall he mount, and keep his... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...inherit Nor the pride nor ample piuiou, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Thro' the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Sach forms as glitter in the muse's ray, With orient hues, uu borrow 'd of the sun, Yet shall he mount,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...4Tor the pride, nor ample pinion, liât the Theban eagle " bear Sailing with supreme dominion "hrough 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, unborrow'd of the Sun: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way ieyond... | |
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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, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good... 
