| Richard Thomson - 1828 - 384 pages
...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, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold, What worlds, or what vast regions... | |
| Tales, Richard Thomson - 1828 - 382 pages
...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... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...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 Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind that... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...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,...oft outwatch the Bear. With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold, What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1832 - 506 pages
...door. CHAPTER IV. THE SOLILOQUY, AND THE CHARACTER, OF A RECLUSE. < THE INTERRUPTION. " Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, Or thrice-great Hermes, and ansphere The spirit of Plato." MILTON. — II Penseroso. As Aram assisted... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 pages
...seen; thus letting others into a share of his enjoyments, by the imagination of them. And let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear With thrice-great Hermes ; or unsphere The Spirit of Plato, to unfold What world or what vast regions hold... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1835 - 350 pages
...seen; thus letting others into a share of his enjoyments, by the imagination of them. And let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear With thrice-great Hermes ; or unsphere The Spirit of Plato, to unfold What world or what vast regions hold... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 312 pages
...rapiunt me, mea vita, libri. Milton ad Carolum Deodatum. Let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen on some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato Sometimes let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting... | |
| Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 pages
...rapiunt me, mea vita, libri. Milton ad Carolum Deodatum. Let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen on some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato Sometimes let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...bless the dores from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely towre, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphear The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold 'I'll.- immortal mind... | |
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