| 1840 - 372 pages
...BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and...earth ; and, with low-thoughted care Confined and pester'd in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful of the crown... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 374 pages
...BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered • In regions mild of calm...of this dim spot, Which men call earth ; and, with lo w-thoughted care Confined and pester'd in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish... | |
| William Wilberforce - 1840 - 558 pages
...resides " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot That men call earth ; and with low-thoughted care Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful...crown that virtue gives After this mortal change." But I am ashamed of having said so much in depreciation of a work entitled to very high praise. I trust... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and...call Earth, and with low-thoughted care Confined, and pester'd in this pin-fold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful of the crown... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd equal confli U 4 low-though ted care Confin'd and pester'd in this pinlbld here. Strive to keep up a frail and feverish... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 422 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 forth... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 428 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 forth... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...descends or enters. EFORE the starry threshold of Jove's r court My mansion is, where those immortal In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the...earth ; and, with low-thoughted care, Confined and pester'd in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful of the crown... | |
| John Rylands Library - 1922 - 592 pages
...mastering actually went along b them with the fierce and eager immersion in it; the thrill of breathing the Calm and serene air Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, with the thrill of seeing and painting in all its lurid colouring the volcanic chaos of this " stir... | |
| Robert Bridges - 870 pages
...of Jove's Court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes of bright aerial spirits live insphear'd in Regions mild of calm and serene Air, Above the smoke and stirr of this dim spot, which men call Earth, and with lowthoughted care Confin'd, and pester 'd in... | |
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