...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, HE saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the...

...Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph wings of ectasy, The secrets of lh' abyss to spy. eath thus more dreadO what a ridicule of absurdity...our chariot wheels : How heavily we drag the load blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous...

...the seraph wing* of ecstasy, The secrets of th* abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less, presumptuous...

...caat a kind of shade upon most of the other works of man-— He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze. Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw,—but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd bis eyes hi endless night. But it was the light of...

...the scrnph-wings of ccstacy, The eccreti of ill' abyss to spy ; He pa»'d the flaming bounds of place and time, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze; He saw— but blasted with excess of light, C'Josuil bin eyes in endless uighi. Miss Eve. How would you describe...

...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, HE saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the...

...has cast a kind of shade upon all the after-works of man-: ' He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time— The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze; He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only,...

...has cast a kind of shade upon all the after-works of man : ' He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time — The living throne, the sapphire blaze,...Where angels tremble while they gaze ; He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only,...

...Dante. Gray has said of Milton in congenial language , that « He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time. » The living throne, the sapphire blaze,...! » But there are many human interests in Dante's poeui, which Milton's plan would not admit. With regard to equality, and all ihat can be done by skill...

...the seraph wings of Eestasy, The secrets of th' abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous...