...eternal artifice. He doesn't want to return to the world where imagination has to start from scratch, 'the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth'. If one turns from the epilogue back to the Spirit's opening lines, it's clear how completely Milton...

...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...smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, . . . He speaks of the tutelary deities of the region (managing to pay a compliment to the Earl of...

...incarnate existence is neatly concentrated in line 38. To remain 'White and entire' while dwelling amidst 'the smoke and stir of this dim spot, / Which men call earth' (Comus, lines 5-6) is a noble spiritual ideal; but to achieve it at the cost of human spontaneity and...

...has come but in a way which moves it progressively farther from earth: Above the smoake and stirre of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and with low-thoughted care Confin'd, and pester 'd in this pin-fold here, Strive to keep up a fraile, and feaverish being Vnmindfull...

...bright aereal Spirits live infyhear'd In Regions milde of calm and serene Ayr, Above tie smoak and slirr of this dim Spot, Which men call Earth, and with low'thoughted care Confn'd, and peeler din this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail, andFeaverish being UnmindMlofwe...

...PARTI The Definition and Preservation of Living Systems Gaian Views DORION SAGAN AND LYNN MARGULIS Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth. —John Milton (1608-1674) THE GAIAN VIEW — or rather Gaian views, since they have begun to be analyzed...

...court My mans1on is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits l1ve insphered In reg3ons mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir...Which men call Earth, and with low-thoughted care Con lined, and pestered in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful...

...with his protection. 7468 Comus Before the starry threshold of Jove's Court My manslon is. 7469 Comus ce' 7470 Comus Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That...

...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...stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and with low thoughted care Confined and pestered 1n th1s p1nfold here Strive to keep up a frail and feverish...

...female mind is elevated above the conflicts that perplex the male mind and is thus able to theorize "In regions mild, of calm and serene air, / Above...and stir of this dim spot / Which men call earth." (65) Referring to the male tendency to be mystified by conflict and complexity, Whewell asserts: character...