| John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...Lady Altai JSgerton. 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 and stir of this... | |
| 1866 - 376 pages
...EGEBTOM. COMDS, A MASK. 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 inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air, Ahove the smoke and stir of this... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...Hell grew darker at their frown : so matched they stood J. MILTON 973 PROLOGUE OF THE SPIRIT IN COMUS 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... | |
| Edward Walford - 1867 - 84 pages
...' = when they shall exchange (e|a/ne(/3etr0ai) mortal form. ' sainted seats ' (see JEsch. Aj. 176). Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion...where those immortal shapes Of bright aereal spirits lived insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot,... | |
| Max Ring - 1868 - 342 pages
...King as Attendant Spirit entered it and proclaimed his mission in the following wellsounding lines : " 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 ßmoke and stir of... | |
| 1889 - 608 pages
...Education," read at the first meeting of the Conference, like the attendant spirit in Comus, moving " in regions mild of calm and serene air, above the smoke and stir of this dim spot which men call " — Birmingham, struck a higher chord which echoed through the more matter-offact (we will not say... | |
| 1909 - 502 pages
...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 aerial Spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this... | |
| Robert Bridges - 870 pages
...grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Now Milton; the Attendant Spirit in Comus intro' duces himself. Before the starry threshold of Jove's Court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes of bright aerial spirits live insphear'd in Regions mild of calm and serene Air, Above the smoke and stirr of... | |
| William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 pages
...in the masque and the traditional "presenter" of the "device." Before the starry threshold of Joves Court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aereal Spirits live insphear'd In Regions milde of calm and serene Air, Above the smoak and stirr of this dim spot, Which... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...Lawes) speaking, in the calm recitative of formal blank verse, the introductory expository speech: 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... | |
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