| Tales, Richard Thomson - 1828 - 382 Seiten
...though he lived almost five hundred years before that exquisite but whiggish poet:— " Let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft' outwatch the bear, W ith thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold, What worlds, or what vast regions... | |
| Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 Seiten
...with the smoke of my midnight lamp, which doth " Oft outwalch the bear With thrice great Hermes, and unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind." But a kind, yet mistaken, friend 01 mine, who insisted that the ' proper study of mankind is man,'... | |
| Cornelius Webbe - 1828 - 468 Seiten
...smoke of my midnight lamp, which doth • •' Oft outwatch the bear With thrice great Hermes, and unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind.' But a kind yet mistaken friend of mine, who insisted that the ' proper study of... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 Seiten
...topics, has pursued the same track: " Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great...Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook : And of those demons that are... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 Seiten
...ground A various mold ; and from the boiling cells, By strange conveyance, filled each hollow nook. Id. Unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds...immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy noo*. Id. Poems. Thee I account still happy, and the chief Among the nations, seeing thou art... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1829 - 648 Seiten
...teen, in some high lonely tower. Where I may outwatch the Bear With thrice great Hermes, or unspherc The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast- regions hold Th' immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in his fleshly nook ; And of those demons that a,e... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 Seiten
...track : " Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft out-wateh the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, te5 unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold 'I'h' immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...cricket on the hearth, Or the belman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower,...immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1830 - 388 Seiten
...in some high lonely tow'r Where I may oft outwatch the Ilear, With thrice great Hermes , or unsphcre The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds , or what...The immortal mind , that hath forsook Her mansion in tlus fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air, flood , or under ground. , «... | |
| William Godwin - 1831 - 504 Seiten
...the acquisition of knowledge ; they -outwatch the bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere Tin- spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind. Others again would waste perhaps their whole lives in reverie and idleness. They an: constituted of... | |
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