 | John Milton - 1767 - 448 pages
...Regent of day, and all th' horizon round Invefted with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude thro' heaven's high road ; the gray Dawn, and the Pleiades before him dance'd, Shedding fweet influence : lefs bright the moon, y\$ But oppofite in levell'd weft was fet, His mirrour, with... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1789 - 306 pages
...Clunate, or years damp my intended wing. Book vii. line 373. fpeaking of the fun, Invefted with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude through Heaven's high road : the gray Dawn and the PU'iadcs before him dancJd. It muft be confeffed, where fome important adjective of two or more fyllables... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1797 - 208 pages
...(a) at this very hour the morning horizon began suddenly to redden. It was the dawn. Then indeed, " First IN HIS EAST the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of Day I" This luminary was EDMUND BURKE. Light broke upon them all. The features of misrule and malignity,... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...reflection they augment Their small peculiar, though from human sight So lar remote, with diminution seen. First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of day, and all th' horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude thro' heaven's high road ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...surprising and beautiful". The several glories of the heavens make their appearance on the fourth day : ' First in his east the glorious lamp was seen. Regent of day, and all the horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude through heaven's high road ; the gray Dawn, and the Pleiades... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - English literature - 1803 - 614 pages
...(a) At this very hour the morning horizon began suddenly to redden. It was the dawn. Then indeed, " First in his *' east the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of Day!" This luminary was EDMUND BURKE. Light broke upon them all. The features of misrule and malignity, of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...surprising and beautiful. The several glories of the heavens make their appearance on the fourth day. First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of day, and all th' horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude thro" heav'n's high road ;... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...the east his glorious lamp was seen, Rjgent of day, and all th' horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude through heaven's...road ; the gray Dawn, and the pleiades, before him danc'd, Shedding sweet influence. The same defect is perceived in the following line, where the pause... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...And Earth self-balanc'd on her center hung. The first APPEARANCE of the SU.N and MOON, (MILTON.) • FIRST in his east the glorious lamp was seen, , Regent of day, and all th' horizon round Invested with bright'rays, jocund to run • His longitude through Heav'n's high... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 504 pages
...only of another's Light, and from shining with rays more delicate and soft. THUS Ch. IV. THUS Milton, First in HIS East the glorious Lamp was seen, Regent of Day, and all tli Horizon round Invested with bright rays ; jocund to run His longitude thro' Heav'n's high road... | |
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First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of day, and all the horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude through heaven's high road ; the gray Dawn and the Pleiades before him danced, Shedding sweet influence. 
