 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literary Collections - 1896 - 556 pages
...AFTER THE INFINITE From ' Pleasures of the Imagination1 WHO that, from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Thro' mountains, plains, thro' empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 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...labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey llilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through mountains, plains, through emp1res black with shade)... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 654 pages
...AFTER THE INFINITE. (From " Pleasures of the Imagination.") WHO that, from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Thro' mountains, plains, thro' empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...wilful might; Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring ? who but rather turns [shade, Through mountains, plains, through empires black with And continents of sand, will turn his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...wilful might ; I'roud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring ? who but rather turns rown, That fires ambition and adorns renown, That...of love from Theodosius : No more of this, no mor [shade. Through mountains, plains, through empires black with And continents of sand, will turn his... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...unconstrained view 25 Than to the glimm'ring of a waxen flame? Who that, from Alpine heights, his lab'ring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus...mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, 30 And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...unconstrained view 25 Than to the glimm'ring of a waxen flame? Who that, from Alpine heights, his lab'ring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus...mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, 30 And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...nature, which contribute the most to the sublime, in Akenside upon this subject: - Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than...a waxen flame? Who that, from Alpine heights, his lab'ring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey The Nile or Ganges roll his wasteful tide, Thro'... | |
 | Mark Akenside - History - 1996 - 616 pages
...toils; Proud to be daring? Who but rather turns To heav'n's broad fire his unconstrained view, 175 Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame? Who that, from Alpine heights, his lab'ring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rowling his bright wave Thro'... | |
 | Nicholas Reid - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 216 pages
...Creation (Dyce xiv). The narrative voice asks, rhetorically, Who that, from Alpine heights, his lab'ring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Thro' mountains, plains, thro' empires black with shade, And continents of sand; will turn his gaze... | |
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Majestic forms ; impatient to be free, Spurning the gross control of wilful might ; Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring? 
