| 1830 - 1016 halaman
...exercise, in ascending and descending the path between earth and heaven. They breathe empyreal air — " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." How can he do otherwise than choose to be cheerful, who lives in the clouds of heaven, and on the cabbages... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1832 - 324 halaman
...nature more beautiful and soft than that of Madeline Lester—never a nature more inclined to live " above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, which men call earth" — to commune with its own high and chaste creations of thought—to make a world out of the emotions which... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1832 - 226 halaman
...in the prospect of Madeline's happiness, did not too often , question the future respecting her own. smoke and stir of this dim spot, which men call earth" —to commune with its own high and chaste creations of thought—to make a world out of the emotions which... | |
| Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 halaman
...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... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 halaman
...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, Which men call earth." It was thought this collection could not be better concluded, than with the bishop's own parting exhortation,... | |
| 1834 - 896 halaman
...objections acutely urged by Dennis, are impressive and affecting to a high degree — so that Addison's Cato is no bad Stoic. John Kemble looked him to perfection...Shakspeare's plays would continue to be read if there was not a theatre in existence ; whereas, if poor Murphy, as a tragedian, were banished from the stage... | |
| Mary Boddington - 1834 - 374 halaman
...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... | |
| 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 halaman
...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... | |
| 1835 - 440 halaman
...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... | |
| 1835 - 254 halaman
...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. The impersonations of his mind (stored as it is with the most popular fictions of poetical mythology)... | |
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