...high poetry must be religious ; and so it is, for its whole language is breathing of a life " above the smoke and stir of this dim spot which men call earth;" and the feelings, impulses, motives, aspirations, obligations, duties, .privileges, which it shadows...

...vapor; she is prevented from soaring, to live inspherecl In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of .this dim spot Which men call earth. The pampered Christian thus continually gravitating to the earth, would have his heart solely bent...

...of Jove's r court My mansion is, where those immortal 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, Confined and pester'd in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail...

...immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above @7 ; and, with low-thoughted care Confin'd and pester'd in this pinfold hero, Strive to keep up a frail...

...terrestrial and sordid influences. The very life of the man of science might seem a perpetual ascent " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth ;" (1) " A Treatise on Moral Evidence: illustrated by numerous Examples both of general Principle and...

...immortal shapes Of bright aërial spirits live insphered 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, Confined and pestered in this pinfold here Strive to keep up a frail...

...immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd 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 Confin'd and pester'd in this pinfold here,. Strive to. keep up a frail...

...house of God and of His Christ rising out of every town and every hamlet, to bear our hearts " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth," — now, when, if we cast our eyes over the map of the earth, we see at once that Christ is the recognized...

...once from the contemplation of some grosser image, " To regions bright of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." In a degree equal, at least, if not superior to that of Shakespeare, the muse of Milton addresses itself...

...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 ; and, with low-thoughted care, Confined and pestered in this pinfold here Strive to keep up a frail...