 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...not to be distinguished from the solemn measures of that elder sister, who, in uniform state, came ' sweeping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ;' — while the higher manners of the novel never require more than the grace of a romantic interest,... | |
 | Tales, Richard Thomson - English essays - 1828 - 382 pages
...worlds, or what vast regions hold The 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 hath a free consent With planet or with element." Even so would the Royal Beauclerc sit and commune with things... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...worlds, or what vast regions hold 'I'h' immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood,...hath a true consent With planet, or with element." t • E«chenbach. — I am indebted for this quotation to Dr. Akenside's notes subjoined to hit Hymn... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...worlds, or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood,...hath a true consent With planet, or with element." t * Eschenbach.—I am indebted for this quotation to Dr. Akenside's notes subjoined to his Hymn to... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...Damdeit. What in sleep thou didst abhor to dream, Waking thou never wilt content to do. MUlon. Demons found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true content With planet or with clement. Id. Paracelsus did not always write so conicntanrautly to himself,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood,...or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptered pall come sweepmg by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops's lme, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1830 - 388 pages
...or what vast regions hold 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. , « Je me promène solitaire dans cette plaine que re« couvre un doux gazon ; j'y contemple l'astre... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...immortal mind, that hath forHer mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those demons that are fouud In lire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true...Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled liatli the bnskined stage. But, O sad virgin ! that thy... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...or what vast regions hold 90 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 true consent 94 With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 true consent With planet or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall... 
