 | John Wesley Etheridge - 1858 - 584 pages
...any bell ; " but, unlike the Penseroso of the same great poet, he would not say, — " 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...bellman's drowsy chiirm, To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or 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, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind, that... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1859 - 322 pages
...has realised in himself that which was a desire in the divine mind of Milton : — But let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower,...may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, to unfold What world, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 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... | |
 | John Wesley Etheridge - 1859 - 512 pages
...unlike the Penseroso of the same great poet, he would not say — " Let my lamp at midnight hoar Bo 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 hold Th' immortal mind that... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - 1986 - 328 pages
...and Prose of William Blake, p. 685, give these lines of the poem as the subject of the illustration: Where I may oft outwatch the Bear With thrice great Hermes or unsphear The Spirit of Plato to unfold What Worlds or what vast regions hold The Immortal Mind that... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 pages
...of the Little Bear is the Polestar, or Cynosure (dog's tail). Illustrative. Milton's " Let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outmatch the Bear " ( II Penseroso) ; and his " Where perhaps some beauty lies The cynosure of neighbouring... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...move round and round in heaven, but never sink, as the other stars do, beneath the ocean. Let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . . . And Prometheus, in JR Lowell's poem, says: One after one the stars have risen and set, Sparkling... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...understanding, prophetic powers: Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely Tow'r, 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 hold The immortal mind that... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nighdy harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower,...Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes,69 or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold 90 The immortal... | |
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