 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...buoyancy, mere ponderous clods — " leaden souls that love the ground." The castle-builder's is a region of calm and serene air Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth. He may visit the " sphery chime," command time, and subdue space. He may surmount physical impossibility,... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...buoyancy, mere ponderous clods—" leaden souls that love the ground." The castle-builder's is a region — of calm and serene air Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth. He may visit the " sphery chime," command time, and subdue space. He may surmount physical impossibility,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...had been allotted, where it had been insphered : the word occurs exactly in the same sense in DrayC 2 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, ton,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 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 pin-fold here, Strive... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...had been allotted, where it had been insphercd : the word occurs exactly in the same sense in DrayIn 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 ConfiVd, and pester'd in this pinfold here, ton,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1824 - 330 pages
...so it was amply compensated by that sublimity of piety, which placed him, as it were, " In region) mild of calm and serene air, " Above the smoke and stir of Itiii dim spot " Which men call earth." It was thought this collection could not be better concluded,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd la regions mild of ealm stolie blows and knoeks ; Call fire and sword, and desolat Whieh men eall earth, and with low thoughted eare Confin'd, and pester'd in this pin-fold here, Strive... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 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, Which men call Earth, and with low-thoughted care Confin'd, and pester'd in this pin-fold here, Strive to keep up a frail... | |
 | 1826 - 440 pages
...bui which, in truth, raised it minds of both to a kind of happy residence 'In regions mild, of calrri and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth—' a peculiar character has been derived to the poetrr of them both, which distinguishes their compositions... | |
 | 1827 - 604 pages
...exquisite felicity of the fiction by which he transports his readers into a higher atmosphere, to ' —— regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth,' in order to listen to the accents of an immortal,—places the Poet on a vantage-ground which enables... | |
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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 serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth... 
