 | Donald Burrows, Rosemary Dunhill, James Harris - Music - 2002 - 1268 pages
...you bested, Or fill the fixed Mind with all your Toys? Ohl let my Lamp at midnight Hour Be seen in some high lonely Tower, Where I may oft outwatch the...that hath forsook Her Mansion in this fleshly nook. Chorus Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd Pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops... | |
 | Kathleen Raine - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 472 pages
...to philosophy and from philosophy to myth, as did Plato himself when he soared into the regions of The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook? In fact, in Blake's account of the specters we find Plato and Plotinus as his two chief sources. On... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...midnight hour, 85 Be seen in some high lonely Tow'r, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of 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 Damons that are... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 288 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...that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook. (74-92) The above passage abounds with elements of Milton's experience at Cambridge: enforced curfews... | |
 | James Hastings - Reference - 2004 - 596 pages
...the Fr. manoir). — A mansion is primarily any kind of dwelling-place, as in Milton, II Pen», 92— •To unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold...that hath forsook Her mansion In this fleshly nook.' Especially a place to abide in permanently, as T. Adams on 2 P 1* 'Worldly things are but a tabernacle,... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 288 pages
...bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm: Or let my lamp at 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 What worlds, or what vast regions hold... | |
 | Caitlín Matthews, John Matthews - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 468 pages
...hunger after wisdom and her gifts. (9 The Magus and His Magic Let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear With thrice great Hermes. — MILTON: IL PENSEROSO The magician strives to know God's mind as it is externalized... | |
 | John Milton - Fiction - 2006 - 94 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...that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or underground, Whose power hath a true consent... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 284 pages
...nightingale and ending with sacred anthems and tragic drama. He studies at midnight in some high lonely tow'r Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great...hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook. The body is subordinated in this early poem — Milton has been immersed in Neoplatonic Cambridge — as... | |
 | Patrick Harpur - History - 2007 - 394 pages
...References 352 Selected Bibliography 362 Index 368 ... Or let my lamp at 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 What worlds, or what vast regions hold... | |
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Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion... 
