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, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth... Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 1651823Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1874 - 136 pages
...simply the Eulogy of Virtue.' The first scene discovers a wild •wood. The attendant SPIRIT descends or enters. 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, Above the smoke... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...brother. THE LADY ALICE EGERTON.* The first Scene discovers a wild Wood. The ATTENDANT SPIRIT descends or enters. 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...WORDSWORTH. COMUS, A MASK. THE FIBST SCENE D1SCOVERS A W1LD WOOD. The ATTENDANT SP1R1T descends or enters. 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, Above the smoke... | |
| George Saintsbury - English language - 1908 - 612 pages
...of Comus is obviously and multifariously experimental. The opening block of seventeen lines * is 1 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, Above the smoke... | |
| John Milton - 1908 - 440 pages
...PRESIDENT OF WALES. The First Scene Discovers a Wild Wood. The ATTENDANT SPIRIT descends or enters. Spirit. 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, Above the smoke... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...light ! 1633-34? 1645. CQMUS The first scene discovers a wild wood. The attendant spirit descends or enters. 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, Above the smoke... | |
| John William Mackail - English poetry - 1909 - 234 pages
...sufficient excuse for quoting the whole of the opening paragraph of the prologue as it originally stood. Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air Amidst the Hesperian... | |
| John Milton - 1910 - 408 pages
...in that of '673.! COMUS. The first Scene discovers a wild 'wood ^ The ATTENDANT SPIRIT descends or enters. 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, Above the smoke... | |
| William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 198 pages
...Brother ; Sabrina, the Nymph. The first Scene discovers a wild Wood. The Attendant Spirit descends or enters Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aereal spirits live insphered 62 In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the... | |
| Sarah Emma Simons, Clem Irwin Orr - Children's plays, American - 1913 - 412 pages
...Attendant Spirit, dressed in filmy, glittering robes, enters and delivers the Prologue. Prologue SPIRIT. 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, Amongst the... | |
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