 | 1827 - 604 lehte
...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... | |
 | Alvan Bond, Pliny Fisk - 1828 - 454 lehte
...from deep discoveries of his own sinful heart, he in general lived in the enjoyment of religion, — "In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the...smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." Such was the man, who at the age of thirty-three years was dismissed from the labors and trials of... | |
 | 1828 - 588 lehte
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 lehte
...what passes there; be lowly wise : Think only what concerns thee, and thy being. id. Above the smoak and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth, and with ¡awthoughted care, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being. Id. From the tree her step she turned,... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1830 - 558 lehte
...is recognized by the same critical sagacity in a sentence of the second Paraenesis. Milton writes; - "insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air,...stir of this dim spot Which men call" earth." And Leighton exhorts us, " In purioris multo ac pacatioris veritatis luce, longe supra turbidam illam et... | |
 | 1830 - 1016 lehte
...regular exercise, in ascending and descending the path between earth and heaven. They breathe empyreal air — " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." How can he do otherwise than choose to be cheerful, who lives in the clouds of heaven, and on the cabbages... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 lehte
...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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1832 - 324 lehte
...nature more beautiful and soft than that of Madeline Lester—never a nature more inclined to live " above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, which men call earth" — to commune with its own high and chaste creations of thought—to make a world out of the emotions... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 lehte
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 lehte
...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 them both, which distinguishes their compositions... | |
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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... 
