| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood,...Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But, O sad Virgin ! that thy... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...worlds, or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook ; And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood,...Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But, O sad virgin ! that thy... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1823 - 400 pages
...worlds or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in his fleshy nook ; And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground. Here, there are no unmeaning general expressions ; all is particular ; all is picturesque ; nothing... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demous that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground,...Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what, though rare, of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : ars to cease : 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do...pillows, sweetest bed ; A chamber, deaf to noise, scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelope' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those Demons that are found In lire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with clement. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelops'... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...world.s, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : v eonsent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In seepter'd pall eome sweeping... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those Demons that are found In fire, air, flood,...element. Sometime let gorgeous tragedy In sceptred pall eome sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, . . Or what (though... | |
| English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...worlds or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood,...or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 650 pages
...not to be distinguished from the solenm measures of that elder sister, who, in uniform state, came ' sweeping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ;' — while the higher manners of the novel never require more than the grace of a romantic interest,... | |
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