 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.  Poésies de Gray - Page 56by Thomas Gray - 1797 - 173 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle hear, Sailing with supreme dominion 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... | |
 | 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
...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 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... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...Nor the pride nor ample pinion, 50 That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the muse's ray, 55 With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun ; Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...pinion, 50 That the Theban eagle bear, Through the azure deep of air : Sailing with supreme dominion Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the muse's ray, 55 With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun ; Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion 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 Bejond... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Yet shall he mount and keep his distant way, Beyond the limits of a yulgar fate, Beneath the good how... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Thcban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion 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... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban Eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion 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... | |
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