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Bright-eyed Fancy, Hov'ring O'er, Scatters From Her Pictured Urn Thoughts That Breathe And Words That Burn.
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Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er,
Scatters from her pictured urn
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
-- The Progress of Poesy, III, 3, Line 2
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From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Progress of Poesy, I, 1, Line 3...
Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Progress of Poesy, III, 1, Line 12...
Glance their many-twinkling feet.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Progress of Poesy, I, 3, Line 11...
O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Progress of Poesy, I, 3, Line 16...
While bright-eyed Science watches round.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Ode for Music, Chorus, Line 3...
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,--but far above the great.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Progress of Poesy, III, Line 16...
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....
And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Bard, III, 3, Line 3