 | William Cowper - 1835 - 726 pages
...religious enthusiasm, but which in truth raised the minds of both to a kind of happy residence " Tn regions mild, of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth," a peculiar character has been derived to the poetry of them both, which distinguishes their compositions... | |
 | Alexander Knox - 1837 - 624 pages
...of religious enthusiasm, but which in truth raised the minds of both to a kind of happy residence, " In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the...smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth ;" a peculiar character has been derived to the poetry of both, which distinguishes their compositions... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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...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 and feverish... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...of Jove's court My mansion is, where 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, 5 Which men call Earth, 'and with low-thoughted care Confin'd, and pester'd in this pinfold here, Strive... | |
 | Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1839 - 920 pages
...glorious heavens, and longed to soar above to the bright stars which looked down so radiantly, upon " The smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." This little chamber was full of sweet and happy recollections; and though she returned to it an altered... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke aud stir of this dim spot, Which men call Earth, and with lowthoughted tare Confin'd and pester'd in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful... | |
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