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 The immortal mind that hath forsook Her... Annales de philosophie chrétienne - Page 3041899Full view - About this book
| Cornelius Webbe - 1828 - 468 pages
...smoke of my midnight lamp, which doth • •' Oft outwatch the bear With thrice great Hermes, and unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind.' But a kind yet mistaken friend of mine, who insisted that the ' proper study of... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...ground A various mold ; and from the boiling cells, By strange conveyance, filled each hollow nook. Id. Unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds...vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy noo*. Id. Poems. Thee I account still happy, and the chief Among the nations,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...hour Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, 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 Th' immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook : And of those demons that are... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 648 pages
...teen, in some high lonely tower. Where I may outwatch the Bear With thrice great Hermes, or unspherc The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast- regions hold Th' immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in his fleshly nook ; And of those demons that a,e... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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...vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1830 - 388 pages
...in some high lonely tow'r Where I may oft outwatch the Ilear, With thrice great Hermes , or unsphcre The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds , or what...regions hold The immortal mind , that hath forsook Her mansion in tlus fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air, flood , or under... | |
| William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 496 pages
...devote their minds to the acquisition of knowledge ; they outwatch the bear. With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind. Others again would waste perhaps their whole lives in reverie and idleness. They are constituted of... | |
| William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 504 pages
...the acquisition of knowledge ; they -outwatch the bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere Tin- spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind. Others again would waste perhaps their whole lives in reverie and idleness. They an: constituted of... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...hour Be seen on 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 [sook The immortal mind, that hath forHer mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those demons that are... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...83 Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, 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 90 The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those Demons that... | |
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