| Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 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, Confin'd and pester'd in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail... | |
| Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 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'dln this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...those immortal shapes Of bright ae'real 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 pestered in this pinfold here Strive to keep up a frail... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1316 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 pestered in this pinfold here, Strive to keep np a frail... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...he may report Thy words, by adding fuel to the flame ? Line 1695. Tame villatic fowl. COMUS. Line 5. Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth. Line 205 A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows... | |
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 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, Confin'd and pester'd in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 462 pages
...elevation, all high poetry must be religious ; and so it is, for its whole language is breathing of a life " above the smoke and stir of this dim spot which men call earth ; " and the feelings, impulses, motives, aspirations, obligations, duties, privileges, which it shadows... | |
| 1857 - 692 pages
...tragedy (Sampson Agonistes), like his epics, is Biblical ; the comedy (Comas) has its homo in a sphere " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." Of the numerous athletic corps of dramatists, contemporary with Shakespeare and Milton, few have left... | |
| Education - 1856 - 732 pages
...deathless lyre and song who in all ages have cast the radiant glories of their rapt imaginations " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and with low-thoughted care, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being." Let it not be said that... | |
| Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...partisanship in a fierce warfare, still keeping his imagination insphered in regions of serene air, — • " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." What mortal monarch seated on earthly throne, though, like Satan's throne in Pandemonium, it " Outshone... | |
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