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... Milton's Legacy - Page 126edited by - 2005 - 257 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| English literature - 1820 - 608 pages
...heavenly inhabitant of another world, clothed in " pure ambrosial weeds," descends upon this earth. Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion...those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live unspher'd In regions mild, of calm and serene air. After this solemn and beautiful eiordium, he declares... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...Alice Egerton. COMU S. The first Scene discovers a wild Wood. The ATTENDANT SPIRIT descends or enters. BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion...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... | |
| 1823 - 732 pages
...with respect, few persons edition of Milton, take the trouble to read them. Even Thi Spirit entert. Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion...those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Amidst th' Hesperian gardens, on whose banks Bedew'd... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...AUG. M. 1816. COMU S. The first Scene discovers a wild Wood. The ATTENDANT SPIRIT descends or enteri. BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion...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... | |
| 1823 - 496 pages
...such of our readers as are not possessed of Mr. Todd's expensive edition of Milton. The Spirit enters. Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapet Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, . /.MI/VV th'... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...Egerton. - The first scene discovers a wild wood. The attendant Spirit descendà or enfer*. BEPORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is,...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... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...the Nymph. COMU S. Thejlrat Scene discovers a wild wood. The ATTENDANT SPIRIT descends, or enters. BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion...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... | |
| 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 - 428 pages
...MASK. / ' -\ ,/"•'' THE FIRST SCENE DISCOVERS A WILD WOOD. The Attendant Spirit descends or enters. BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aereal spirits live inspher'd Milton has here more professedly imitated the manner of Shakespeare in... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 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,... | |
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