| 1824 - 624 pages
...— " leaden souls that love the ground." The castle-builder's is a region -of calm and serene air Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth. He may visit the u sphery chime," command time, and subdue space. He may surmount physical impossibility,... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...clods—" leaden souls that love the ground." The castle-builder's is a region — of calm and serene air Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth. He may visit the " sphery chime," command time, and subdue space. He may surmount physical impossibility,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air, rd and with low thoughted canConfin'd, and pester'd in this pin-fold here, Strive to keep up a frail and... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call Earth; and, with low-thoughted care, Confined and pester'd in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...those immortal shapes Of bright aerial Spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of .calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call Earth, and with low-thoughted care Confin'd, and pester'd in this pin-fold here, Strive to keep up a frail... | |
| Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...truth, raised it minds of both to a kind of happy residence 'In regions mild, of calrri and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth—' a peculiar character has been derived to the poetrr of them both, which distinguishes their compositions... | |
| 1827 - 604 pages
...he transports his readers into a higher atmosphere, to ' —— regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth,' in order to listen to the accents of an immortal,—places the Poet on a vantage-ground which enables... | |
| Alvan Bond, Pliny Fisk - Middle East - 1828 - 454 pages
...heart, he in general lived in the enjoyment of religion, — "In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." Such was the man, who at the age of thirty-three years was dismissed from the labors and trials of... | |
| Religion - 1828 - 588 pages
...transports his readers into a higher atmosphere, to " — — — regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth," in order to listen to the accents of an immortal, places the Poet on a vantage ground which enables... | |
| Robert Leighton - 1830 - 558 pages
...sentence of the second Paraenesis. Milton writes; - "insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call" earth." And Leighton exhorts us, " In purioris multo ac pacatioris veritatis luce, longe supra turbidam illam... | |
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