 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 658 pages
...unfold What worlds, cr what vast regions hold Tli ' immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion iu his fleshly nook ; And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground. Here there are no unmeaning general expressions; all is particular, a! is picturesque; nothing forced... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear. With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold,...immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1830 - 388 pages
...in some high lonely tow'r Where I may oft outwatch the Ilear, With thrice great Hermes , or unsphcre The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds , or what...The immortal mind , that hath forsook Her mansion in tlus fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air, flood , or under ground. , «... | |
 | William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 614 pages
...they devote their minds to the acquisition of knowledge ; they -outwatch the bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold...worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind. Others again would waste perhaps their whole lives in reverie and idleness. They are constituted of... | |
 | William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 504 pages
...the acquisition of knowledge ; they -outwatch the bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere Tin- spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind. Others again would waste perhaps their whole lives in reverie and idleness. They an: constituted of... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...nightly harm : Or let my lamp at midnight hour 83 Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere...Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold 90 The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those Demons that... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1832 - 242 pages
...immortal mind, that hath forsook What worlds, or what vast regions hold Her mansions in this fleshy nook; And of those demons, that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground. Both Homer and Virgil excel in poetical description. In the second ^Eneid, the sacking of Troy is so... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...unfold What worlds, cr what vast regions hold TIT immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in his fleshly nook ; And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground. Here there are no unmeaning general expressions; all is particular, a! is picturesque; nothing forced... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold so The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in...flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent 95 With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, 75... | |
 | Plato - Philosophy - 1834 - 482 pages
...some higb lonely tower, Wbere I may oft outwatch tbc Bear, With ibrice-'great Hermes, or uiispherc The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what...that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook. 'ETTI т »je yi)c.] he In supernas tilas ieri'tr regiones, ubi omnta stint illttstriora, pulrltriara,... | |
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Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook: And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a... 
