| Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 pages
...wilful might ; Proud of the strong contention of her toils : Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than...to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that, from Alpine2 heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling... | |
| Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...wilful might , Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To Heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame 1 Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...wilful might; Proud of the strong contention of her toils; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than...a waxen flame ? Who that, from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wild horizon, to survey Nilus or •Ganges rolling his bright wave Through... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...Brutus. (2) His arm aloft, ttc. — This fact is related by Cicero himself in his second Philippic. Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that from Alpine heights l his labouring eye Shoots round the vide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges, rolling his bright wave... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...wilful might; Proud of the strong contention of her toils j Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame 1 Who that, from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wild horizon, to survey Nilus or... | |
| Mark Akenside - Physicians as authors - 1857 - 544 pages
...wilful might ; Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To Heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than to the glimmering of a waxen name ? Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey The... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...wilful might; Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than...a waxen flame ? Who that, from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wild horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his 'bright wave Through... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...-wilful might ; Proud of the strong contention of her toils; Proud to be daring 1 who but rather turns To Heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame 1 Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or... | |
| Mark Akenside - 1863 - 336 pages
...toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, 175 Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame? Who that,...mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, iso And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...wilful might; Proud of the strong contention of her toils; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than...a waxen flame? Who that, from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wild horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through... | |
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