 | John Dixon Hunt - Architecture - 1992 - 414 pages
...winds, With antic shapes, wild natives of the brain? My song the midnight raven has outwinged, And shot, ambitious of unbounded scenes, Beyond the flaming limits of the world Her gloomy flight. 38 What is immediately striking not only about Young's indifferent poem but about much of the new poetry... | |
 | Susan Stewart - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 460 pages
...Thou darkness aiding intellectual light My song the midnight raven has outwing'd And shot, ambitions of unbounded scenes Beyond the flaming limits of the world, Her gloomy flight. . . ,69 In contrast, Joseph Warton's "The Pleasures of Melancholy" of 1747 is an apostrophe to Melancholy... | |
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And shot, ambitious of unbounded scenes, Beyond the flaming limits of the world Her gloomy flight. But what avails the flight Of Fancy, when our hearts remain below ? Virtue abounds in flatterers and foes ; Tis pride to praise her, penance to perform.... 
