 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-ey'd Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe , and words that burn. But...supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet soft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues , unborrow'd... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...3. Hark, his hands the lyre explore I Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts, that breathe, and words, that burn*...though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, tThat the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 't is heard no more — O ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? Though...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that barn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more — 3 O lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? though...inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle4 bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1852 - 596 pages
...the information they convey of the poet's earliest predilections : — " Oh, Lyre divine, what during spirit Wakes thee now ? Though he inherit Nor the pride nor ample pinion That the Theban eagles bear. Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air. Yet oft before his infant... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 pages
...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...the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bare,2 Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : 1 We have had in our language... | |
 | 1879 - 1166 pages
...resounding language, which we naturally call Miltonic. Though he modestly asserts that he inherits Nor the pride nor ample pinion That the Theban eagle...supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air, yet we feel that none of his contemporaries — perhaps none of his successors — could have equalled,... | |
 | Max Kaluza - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...that burn. But ah I 'tis heard no more — O! Lyre divine, what daring Spirit Wakes thee now! Tho' he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That 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... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 332 pages
...by Dryden's "less presumptuous car." This note of diminishment turns elegiac in the closing stanza: But ah! tis heard no more — Oh! Lyre divine, what daring Spirit Wakes thee now? In answer Gray offers himself, no "Theban Eagle" but an imitator carried aloft on Pindar's wings. His... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 768 pages
...Milton, and - more recently - by Dryden, should now have passed into such supposedly unworthy hands: Oh! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now?...Through the azure deep of air: Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms of glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrowed of the sun:... | |
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tis heard no more Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air... 
