 | Alvan Bond, Pliny Fisk - Middle East - 1828 - 454 pages
...from deep discoveries of his own sinful heart, he in general lived in the enjoyment of religion, — "In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the...smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." Such was the man, who at the age of thirty-three years was dismissed from the labors and trials of... | |
 | Religion - 1828 - 588 pages
...felicity of the fiction by which he transports his readers into a higher atmosphere, to " — — — regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth," in order to listen to the accents of an immortal, places the Poet on a vantage ground which enables... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1830 - 558 pages
...recognized by the same critical sagacity in a sentence of the second Paraenesis. Milton writes; - "insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the...and stir of this dim spot Which men call" earth." And Leighton exhorts us, " In purioris multo ac pacatioris veritatis luce, longe supra turbidam illam... | |
 | Scotland - 1830 - 1016 pages
...regular 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 pages
...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... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 492 pages
...other habits, so, it was amply compensated by that sublimity of piety, which placed him, as it were, ' In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the...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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 564 pages
...reasoning is undisturbed by the prospect of 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... | |
 | Mary Boddington - 1834 - 374 pages
...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... | |
 | Gift books - 1835 - 254 pages
...world;" to have his " mansion" where 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)... | |
 | Alexander Knox - 1837 - 624 pages
...to all earthly passions, the same vital exercise of every noble and exalted quality of the mind, and the same devotedness to the Sacred Scriptures and...peculiar character has been derived to the poetry of both, which distinguishes their compositions from those of almost all the world besides ? I have already... | |
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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. 
