 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 658 pages
...unfold What worlds, cr what vast regions hold Tli ' immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion iu his fleshly nook ; And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground. Here there are no unmeaning general expressions; all is particular, a! is picturesque; nothing forced... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 518 pages
...in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear. With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold, What worlds or what...immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1830 - 386 pages
...in some high lonely tow'r Where I may oft outwatch the Ilear, With thrice great Hermes , or unsphcre The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds , or what...The immortal mind , that hath forsook Her mansion in tlus fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air, flood , or under ground. , «... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 496 pages
...minds to the acquisition of knowledge ; they outwatch the bear. With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind. Others again would waste perhaps their whole lives in reverie and idleness. They are constituted of... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 500 pages
...the acquisition of knowledge ; they -outwatch the bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere Tin- spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind. Others again would waste perhaps their whole lives in reverie and idleness. They an: constituted of... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold 90 The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in...flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent 94 With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting... | |
 | Mme. Charlotte Fiske (Bates) Rogé - 1832 - 1022 pages
...immortal mind, that hath forHer mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those demons that are fouud In lire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1832 - 242 pages
...immortal mind, that hath forsook What worlds, or what vast regions hold Her mansions in this fleshy nook; And of those demons, that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground. Both Homer and Virgil excel in poetical description. In the second ^Eneid, the sacking of Troy is so... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...unfold What worlds, cr what vast regions hold TIT immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in his fleshly nook ; And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground. Here there are no unmeaning general expressions; all is particular, a! is picturesque; nothing forced... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 496 pages
...thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold so The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in...flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent 95 With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, 75... | |
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Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook... 
