 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme . Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, And love...after death survive : For when the fair in all th Muse's ray With orient hues, unboirow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme Sueh forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...Mitford quotes — " Like to an eagle in his kingly pride Soaring through his wide empire of the aire." Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Ver. 117. Through the azure deep of air.] " Coeli fretum :" ENNIUS. " ^Eris mare magnum." Lucret. ii.... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle hear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 382 pages
...evening, although upon the whole he appeared graver and more thoughtful than usual." JOSEPH BLACKET. " Oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the muse's ray, With orient hues unborrowed of the sun." GRAY. When Blacket, whose poetical " Remains"... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...footstep dread? &c. Nor the pride, or ample pinion, 1 That the Theban eagle bear Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before...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... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 276 pages
...when he became first acquainted with their beauties; that happy time, big with expectation. " When oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the muse's ray." " I have now seen these forms," said he to himself, ''but I fear they glitter no longer."... | |
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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... 
