 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
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unboirow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant in flame Mount up, and take a salamander's name : far — but far above the great. THE BARD. А PINDARIC ODE. ' Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...various modulations of an intrinsic and independent melody. 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. we are certainly indebted to rhyme ; and, whatever opinion may be... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant far — but far above the great. THE BARD. A PINDARIC ODE. RUIN seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 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. Gray. ON A DISTANT PROSPECT Or ETON COLLEGE. YE distant spires,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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. are meant to express the stately march and sounding energy of Dryden's... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 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 VI. THEBAR D. PINDARIC." I. 1. ' RUIN seize thee, ruthless King!... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...the muse's ray, 55 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. • 57. Darkness. 1 HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...the muse's ray, 55 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. Gray. 57. Darkness. 1 HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...of wealth and birth and power sink into insignificance : " 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." Dr. Johnson has observed, that the Bard promotes no truth, moral or... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...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 PASSIONS.— Cottiw. When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While... | |
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