 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 páginas
...other habits, so, it was amply compensated by that sublimity of piety, which placed him, as it were, ' In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the...and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth." It was thought this collection could not be better concluded, than with the bishop's own parting exhortation,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 páginas
...other habits, so, it was amply compensated by that sublimity of piety, which placed him, as it were, ' In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, W hich men call earth.' It was thought this collection could not be better concluded, than with the... | |
 | 1833 - 806 páginas
...though he will not imitate. We regard the places where such men have lived as the cities of a " region mild of calm and serene air, above the smoke and stir of this dim spot ;" thither we cannot carry the petty feelings of our corrupt nature, and disturb the holy ground. The... | |
 | 1833 - 792 páginas
...though he will not imitate. We regard the places where such men have li ved as the cities of a " region mild of calm and serene air, above the smoke and stir of this dim spot ;" thither we cannot carry the petty feelings of our corrupt nature, and disturb the holy ground. The... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 564 páginas
...reasoning is undisturbed by the prospect of its practical consequences. If they theorize, they do so ' In regions mild, of calm and serene air, Above the...smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.' Their course of action is not perturbed by the powers of philosophic thought, even when the latter... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 páginas
...of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd n regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, 5 Which men call Earth; and with low- though ted care Confin'd, and pester'd in this pinfold here,... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1834 - 418 páginas
...probable, that the predominance of those better and higher tendencies of his nature, which " liv'd insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir" of party agitations, soon rendered the course he was pursuing irksome to his feelings ; for, we find in... | |
 | Mary Boddington - 1834 - 374 páginas
...only ten minutes blue sky. We too had fog and starvation when we passed three days at the Coulm — " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth," but a soft warm air, and no rain. Vacillated yesterday, half inclined to try it again, — but the... | |
 | 1835 - 254 páginas
...clogs the aspirations of ordinary mortals in this "gross material world;" to have his " mansion" where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live...smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth. The impersonations of his mind (stored as it is with the most popular fictions of poetical mythology)... | |
 | 1835 - 440 páginas
...of religious enthusiasm, but which, in truth, raised the minds of both to a kind of happy residence 'In regions mild, of calm and serene air, Above the...smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth — ' a peculiar character has been derived to the poetry of them both, which distinguishes their compositions... | |
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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... 
