 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...eternal artifice. He doesn't want to return to the world where imagination has to start from scratch, 'the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth'. If one turns from the epilogue back to the Spirit's opening lines, it's clear how completely Milton... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...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, . . . He speaks of the tutelary deities of the region (managing to pay a compliment to the Earl of... | |
 | R. Wilcher - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 214 pages
...incarnate existence is neatly concentrated in line 38. To remain 'White and entire' while dwelling amidst 'the smoke and stir of this dim spot, / Which men call earth' (Comus, lines 5-6) is a noble spiritual ideal; but to achieve it at the cost of human spontaneity and... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...court My mans1on is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits l1ve insphered In reg3ons mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and with low-thoughted care Con lined, and pestered in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...with his protection. 7468 Comus Before the starry threshold of Jove's Court My manslon is. 7469 Comus ce' 7470 Comus Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That... | |
 | Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 284 pages
...female mind is elevated above the conflicts that perplex the male mind and is thus able to theorize "In regions mild, of calm and serene air, / Above...and stir of this dim spot / Which men call earth." (65) Referring to the male tendency to be mystified by conflict and complexity, Whewell asserts: character... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...My mansion is, where those immortal shapes0 Of bright aerial spirits live ensphered0 In regions m1ld of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth, and, with low-thoughted care Confined, and pestered in this pinfold here,0 Strive to keep up a frail, and feverfch... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 278 pages
...but exemplary exercises in holy imagining.2' They demonstrate how rightly to imagine the world beyond "the smoke and stir of this dim spot, / Which men call Earth." For the Attendant Spirit is the Apollinian custodian of the mythic in the Mask. His presence gives... | |
| |
In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care. 
