...seen in some high lonely tower, Where he might oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, to unsphere The spirit of Plato ; to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook." * He was pensioned, (I helieve...

...of others when looking pityingly on our own ; we may ratiocinate with the " old Stagyrite," and j " Oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or...immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook ; " we may sneer with the Cynics (unless we have learnt the wholesome truth from Jean Paul,...

...of the Little Bear is the Polestar, or Cynosure (dog's tail). Illustrative. Milton's " Let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outmatch the Bear " ( II Penseroso) ; and his " Where perhaps some beauty lies The cynosure of neighbouring...

...understanding, prophetic powers: Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely Tow'r, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great...that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook. (lines 85 91) Rapidly we move on to 'Gorgeous Tragedy' (line 97), 'the tale of Troy divine' (line 100)...

...move round and round in heaven, but never sink, as the other stars do, beneath the ocean. Let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . . . And Prometheus, in JR Lowell's poem, says: One after one the stars have risen and set, Sparkling...

...cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nighdy 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,69 or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold 90 The immortal...

...gregarious, the other thoughtful and generally solitary. Of Penseroso, Milton wrote '. . . Or let my lamp at midnight hour/ Be seen in some high lonely tower/ Where I may oft outwatch the Bear'. If we think of the lamp as turned on to adjust the telescope or to change plates, we picture the attendant...

...the image and example of Hermes Trismegistus and platonic tradition as means to prophetic revelation: to unfold What Worlds, or what vast Regions hold The...forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook: And of those Daemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or underground, Whose power hath a true consent With Planet,...

...The Hermetic trance is described by Milton in // Penseroso, his poem on melancholy: Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower,...forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those daemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet,...

...divinely inspired Saturnian mood the poet enters into a Hermetic trance in which he has visions of What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal...that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook. It is the trance of the inspired melancholy, as described by Agrippa and as depicted by Diirer. And...