 Thro' 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...  A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes - Page 336edited by - 1782Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...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 how far-r-butfar above the great. HEROIC STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL. WRITTEN AFTER HIS FUNERAL.... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...the muse's ray, With orient hues, uu borrow 'd of the sun, Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far — but far above the great! THE DESCENT OF ODIN-AN ODE. ':-.:>-• the king of men with speed,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...in the Muses' 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 how far— but far above the great. ODE. On the Spring. LO ! where the rosy-bosom'd hours, Fair Venus'... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...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 how far — but far above the Great. ODE ON LYRIC POETRY. [AKF..MSIDE.] I. K ONCE more I join the Thespian... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...in tie 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 how far — but far above the great, k We have had in our language no other odes of the sublime kind, than... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, uuborrow'd of the sun: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the Good how far — but far above-the Great. are meant to express the stately march and sounding energy of Dryden's... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...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 how far — but far above the great. * Meant to express the stately march and sound, ing energy of Dryden's... | |
 | Arminianism - 1863 - 1198 pages
...the M use'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 how far ! — but far above the great." Akenside had more of egotistic pedantry than Milton, more of diffuseness,... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...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 how far — but far above the great," The creative power of poetry is admirably pourtrayed by the bold... | |
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