 | William Melmoth - English prose literature - 1758 - 474 pages
...Thenfiine the vales, the rocks in pro/peel rife, A food of glory burflsfrom all thejkies ; The conj'cious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light. I FEAR the enthufiaftic admirers of Homer would look upon me with much indignation, were they to hear... | |
 | Homerus, William Holwell - 1776 - 392 pages
...A flood of glory burfts from all the fkies : The confeious fwains", rejoicing in the fighti ; £ye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light". So many...blaze, And lighten glimm'ring Xanthus with their rays : The long refle£tions of the diftant fires, .. Gleam on the wa Is, and tremble on the fpires. A thoufand... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 408 pages
...Then fhine the vales, the rocks in profpeft rife^ A flood of glory burfts from all the fkies : 65 j The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye...many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long refleftions of the diftant fires 700 Gleam on the walls,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...bunts from all the flcies : t$f The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, :.. . Eye the bh:e fault, and blefs the ufeful light :. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays s The long refleSions of the diftant fires ;c» Gleam on the walls,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...; Then fhine the vales — the rocks in profpeft rife, A flood of glory burfts from all the Ikies ; The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye...many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays,i The long reflexion oi' the diftant fires Gleam on the walls, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...; Then fhine the vales— the rocks in profpefr. rife, A flood of glory burfts from all the fides ; The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye...many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays; The long reflexion of the diftant fires Gleam on the walls, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...Then fhine the vales — the rocks in profpecl: rife, A flood of glory burfts from all the fkies ; The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and bleis the ufeful light. So many flames before proud I lion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1785 - 610 pages
...fays, (imply, The (hepherd's heart is glad , — a plain affcrtioo, which in Pope is rendered thus : " The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the " fight, " Eye the blue vault, and bkfs the afeful " light." Whence the word coafcicuf feems to be joined with f<u>ain, merely by right... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...; Then fhine the vales— the rocks in profpeft rife, A flood of glory burfts from all the fkies ; The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye...many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflexion of the diftant fires Gleam on the walls, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...vales—the rocks in profpect rile, A flood of glory burfts from all the flues i The confcious 1 wains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and blefs...many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xaiithils with their rays; The long reflexion of the diftant fires Gleam on the walls, and... | |
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Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimm'ring Xanthus with their rays : The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. 
