 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 страници
...of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd n regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, 5 Which men call Earth; and with low- though ted care Confin'd, and pester'd in this pinfold here,... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1834 - 410 страници
...that the predominance of those better and higher tendencies of his nature, which " liv'd insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir" of party agitations, soon rendered the course he was pursuing irksome to his feelings ; for, we find in... | |
 | Mary Boddington - 1834 - 374 страници
...only ten minutes blue sky. We too had fog and starvation when we passed three days at the Coulm — " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth," but a soft warm air, and no rain. Vacillated yesterday, half inclined to try it again, — but the... | |
 | 1835 - 254 страници
...world;" to have his " mansion" where 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. The impersonations of his mind (stored as it is with the most popular fictions of poetical mythology)... | |
 | Alexander Knox - 1837 - 624 страници
...difference is, that instead of an almost repressive dignity, we have the sweetest familiarity; instead of the majestic grandeur of the Old Testament, we...peculiar character has been derived to the poetry of both, which distinguishes their compositions from those of almost all the world besides ? I have already... | |
 | 1837 - 646 страници
...transport them to academic bowers, and nooks made holy by sublime associations. We will accompany them " To regions mild, of calm and serene air, Above the smoke...and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth." They shall hold converse with the mighty minds of the departed, with Plato and with Milton, with Taylor... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 606 страници
...simple swell of the Italian dome, seem to carry the cross or ball which they support into ' Regions pure of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot That men call earth.' The dome, however, requires for its elevation a width of span totally inapplicable... | |
 | John Moultrie - 1837 - 398 страници
...sky-cruisereaH'dthe " Crescent Moon," Might, upon reasonable terms, he got To bear my Muse and me, some afternoon, " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth ;" for I'm quite out of tune — Made hippish by eternal common-places — And business — and uninteresting... | |
 | 1834 - 562 страници
...reasoning is undisturbed by the prospect of its practical consequences. If they theorize, they do so ' In regions mild, of calm and serene air, Above the...smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.' Their course of action is not perturbed by the powers of philosophic thought, even when the latter... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 страници
...not the pleasures of imagination enable the niiud tit indulge its delight in aspiring to perfection? 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... | |
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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. 
