...exquisite felicity of the fiction by which he transports his readers into a higher atmosphere, to ' —— regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth,' in order to listen to the accents of an immortal,—places the Poet on a vantage-ground which enables...

...from deep discoveries of his own sinful heart, he in general lived in the enjoyment of religion, — "In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the...smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." Such was the man, who at the age of thirty-three years was dismissed from the labors and trials of...

...felicity of the fiction by which he transports his readers into a higher atmosphere, to " — — — regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth," in order to listen to the accents of an immortal, places the Poet on a vantage ground which enables...

...recognized by the same critical sagacity in a sentence of the second Paraenesis. Milton writes; - "insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the...and stir of this dim spot Which men call" earth." And Leighton exhorts us, " In purioris multo ac pacatioris veritatis luce, longe supra turbidam illam...

...regular exercise, in ascending and descending the path between earth and heaven. They breathe empyreal air — " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth." How can he do otherwise than choose to be cheerful, who lives in the clouds of heaven, and on the cabbages...

...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, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, 5 Which men call Earth, and with low-thoughted care Confin'd, and pester'd in this pinfold here, Strive...

...nature more beautiful and soft than that of Madeline Lester—never a nature more inclined to live " above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, which men call earth" — to commune with its own high and chaste creations of thought—to make a world out of the emotions...

...other habits, so, it was amply compensated by that sublimity of piety, which placed him, as it were, ' In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the...and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth." It was thought this collection could not be better concluded, than with the bishop's own parting exhortation,...

...other habits, so, it was amply compensated by that sublimity of piety, which placed him, as it were, ' In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, W hich men call earth.' It was thought this collection could not be better concluded, than with the...

...though he will not imitate. We regard the places where such men have li ved as the cities of a " region mild of calm and serene air, above the smoke and stir of this dim spot ;" thither we cannot carry the petty feelings of our corrupt nature, and disturb the holy ground. The...