| Hugh Blair - English language - 1837 - 242 pages
...from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour, ' Be seen in some high lonely tower, Exploring Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsoSk Her mansions in this fleshy nook ; ' And of those demons, that are found In fire, air, flood,... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...the doors from nightly harm : Or let my lamp at midnight hour 85 Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice-great...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 Demons that... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...the doors from nightly harm : Or let my lamp at midnight hour 85 Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice-great...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 Demons that... | |
| 1840 - 588 pages
...own ; we may ratiocinate with the " old Stagyrite," and j " Oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold...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,... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 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...those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or underground, Whose power hath a true consent, With planet or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...drowsy charm, To bisas the doors from nightly harm Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be teen in some high wortds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook... | |
| 1843 - 600 pages
...midnight hour, Be seen m some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold...worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that both forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook." Such are Milton's aspirings ; and doubtless he often... | |
| Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...for the sake of science or scientific philosophy, but that he may speculate with romantic curiosity "What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal...that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook." So with Literature — the poetry of the Greeks, the poetry of The Canterbury Tales and Tlie Faerie... | |
| Malachi Mouldy (pseud.) - 1844 - 310 pages
...of superstition. The same account which represents them as being able to commune With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold, What worlds, or what vast regions hold The mortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : — concludes with a description of... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...lonely tower, Where I may oft out- watch the Bear,3 With thrice-great Hermes ; or unsphere The spirit4 of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions...forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook ; And of those5 demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, 1 Cynthia checks, S;c.—\. e. Night... | |
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