 BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court /My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air...  The Young men's magazine - Page 22by British and foreign young men's society - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Books - 1802 - 572 pages
...is reasonably clqse, and, by a huje paraphrastic . • '• assistance, tolerably intelligible : " Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aereal spirits live inspher'd, In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...The Lady ALICE Nij The first SCENE discovers a wild wood. The attendent SPIRIT descends or enters. BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion...regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, 5 Which men call Earth, and with low thoughted care Confin'd, and pester'd... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 294 pages
...Naiads, Spirits, &c. COMUS. ACT I. The SCENE discovers a wild Wood. Thejirst Attendant Spirit enters. " BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court " My mansion...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... | |
 | John Milton, John Dalton - English drama - 1791 - 498 pages
...Naiads, Sfirits, &c. COMUS. ACT I. The SCENE discovers a wild Wood. Thejirst Attendant Spirit enters. " BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court " My mansion...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... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 468 pages
...Naiads, Spirits, &c. COMU S. ACTL The SCENE discovers a itiild Wood. The first Attendant Spirit enters. " BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court " My mansion...regions mild of calm and serene air, " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot " Which men call earth, and withlow-thoughtedcare " Confin'd and pester'd... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...EGERTON. COMU S. THE FIRST SCENE DISCOVERS A WILD WOOD. The Attendant Sfirit descends or enters. JJEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is,...regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughtedcare Confin'd and pester'd... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1802 - 612 pages
...lines, which Milton erased from the opening speech. They originally followed the fourth line. Beyond the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is,...those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphqred In regions mild of calm and serene air. 4 Amidst th' Hesperian gardens, on whose banks Bedew'd... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1802 - 614 pages
...lines, which Miltoa erased from the opening speech. They originally followed the fourth line. Beyond the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is,...those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air. ' Amidst th" Hesperian gardens, on whose banks Bedew'd... | |
 | 1802 - 572 pages
...opening is reasonably close, and, by a little paraphrastic assistance, tolerably intelligible : «' Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright ac'real spirits live inspher'd, In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke-and stir of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...heav'n my following song pursues, Aerial honey, and ambrosial dews. Dryitn. 5. Inhabiting the air. • Where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd, In regions mild of calm and seieue air. Par. Reg. Aerial animals may be subdivided into birds and flies. Lode. 4. Placed in the... | |
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