 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 448 pages
...through the fea. 16. To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies ; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rife. 17Whether they un&uous exhalations are, Fir'd by the fun, or feeming fo alone : Or each fome more remote... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 318 pages
...through the fea. 1 6. To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies ; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rile. 17Whether they unftuous exhalations are, Fir'd by the fun, or feeming fo alone : Or each fome... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1773 - 260 pages
...XVI. To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies ; And heay'n, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rife. XVI!. Whether they unctuous exhalations are, Pir'd by the fun, or feeming fo alone : Or each fome more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...totally different ? To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers...defcription of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very compleat fpecimen of the descriptions in thwpoerw: :/.o« And now approach'd their fleet from India... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...totally different? To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, " Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers...defcription of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very compleat fpecimen of the defcriptions in this poem : And And now approach'd their fleet from India... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 342 pages
...through the fea. X7I. To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the Ikies ; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rife. , i XVII. Whether they unctuous exhalations are, Fir'd by the fun, or feeming fo alone ; Or each fome... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...XVI. To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies ; And hsavep, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rife. XVII. Whether they unftuous exhibitions are, Fir'd by the fun, or feeming fo alone ; Or each fome more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...totally different ? To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies ; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers...defcription of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very compleat fpecimen of the defcriptions in this poem : And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...totally different ? To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies ; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rile. The defcription of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very compleat fpecimen of the defcriptions... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 548 pages
...pen of Dryden. To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies ; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rife. Another fpecies of falfe fublime is ftill more faulty than bombaft ; and that is, to force ele> vation... | |
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To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. 
