 But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glittering skirts unroll? Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul I No more our long-lost Arthur we bewail, All hail, ye genuine kings, Britannia's...  The American Journal of Education - Page 210edited by - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Carr - Ireland - 1806 - 366 pages
...But oh! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height, Descending 1 slow, their glittering skirts unroll; Visions of glory, spare my aching sight, Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul. From its summit, which is a plain of about six yards in circumference, may be seen six-and-twenty lakes... | |
 | Robert Lowth (bp. of London.) - 1816 - 478 pages
...close his eyes. Nor is there a less happy example of future events made present, in the BARD of Gray : Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ; Ye unborn Ages, crowd not on my soul ! &c. &c. SH now now is performing : this is usually effected by a participle only, or by a verb substantive... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...what icenet of Heaven on Snowdon's height, glitt'ring Descending slow their golden skirts unroll ! Visions of glory, spare my aching sight, Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul, EPODE 3. The verse adorn again, Fierce War and faithful Love, And Truth severe by Fairy-Fiction drest.... | |
 | Paul METHUEN (Baron Methuen.) - Great Britain - 1819 - 236 pages
...time believe me your faithful CHARLES WVNN. HINTS TO THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING. April 3, 1813. " Visions of glory, spare my aching sight : Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul.'' WHEN of ruptures you speak, And infirmities seek, To give a new zest to your diction ; When you sportively... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 816 pages
...triumphant over matter ! When I look along the vista of Time, I see, what 1 will not venture to unfold : Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul ! Nor is the present age less remarkable for literature than science ; never had we so many authors,... | |
 | 1825 - 896 pages
...close his eyes. Nor is there a less happy example of future events made present, in the Bard of Gray : Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ; Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! &c. &c. — S. II. L " Their evil disposition hath corrupted his children, which are indeed no longer... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...ention ; and our very eyes ill ache, if long fixed upon any difficultly discerned bject. GlatKtlle. Visions of glory! spare my aching sight, Ye unborn ages crowd not on my soul ! Gray. ACHEEN, ACHE', or ACHEM, a kingdom of Sumatra, on the NW of that island, extending ifty miles... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1032 pages
...another race, to be renewed every half century, with new illumination supplied from a like golden urn. " Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul ! " But alas ! for the weakness of poor human nature even in monomania I The prophet's heart all at... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1056 pages
...another race, to be renewed every half century, with new illumination supplied from a like golden urn. " Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul ! " But alas ! for the weakness of poor human nature even in monomania ! The prophet's heart all at... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 330 pages
...Mem. vol. ip 82, vol. iv. p. 105, 144. — Ed. glitt'ring Descending alow their golden skirts unroll ! Visions of glory, spare my aching sight, Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul. EPODE 3. The verse adorn again, Fierce War and faithful Love, And Truth severe by Fairy-Fiction drest.... | |
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