| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...spheres assign'd, Till hody up to spirit work, in hounds Propovtion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More airy, last the hright consummate flow'? Spirits odorous hreathesi flow'rs and their fruil, Man's nourishment, hy gradual... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...spheres assign'd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More airy, last the bright consummate flower 48 1 Spirits odorous breathes : flow'rs and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd,... | |
| 1820 - 646 pages
...masterly sketch. Milton has given us a description of the growth of a plant — ' So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk ; from thence the...leaves More airy ; last the bright consummate flower. ' And we think this image might be transferred to the slow and perfect growth of works of imagination.... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves 480 More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous...and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, To vital spi'rits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and... | |
| 1810 - 482 pages
...spheres assigu'd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves...bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes; flun'is and their fruit, Man's nourishment, hy gradual scale sublim'd, To vital spirits aspire, to... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous...and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Proportion'd to each kind. So from die root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous...and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...flower Spirits od6rous breathes : flow'rs and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, To vital spi'rits aspire, to animal, ? To intellectual ; give both life and sense, 485 Fancy and understanding ; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 312 pages
...spheres assign'd. Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk: from thence the leaves...and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, To vital spirits aspire : to animal: To intellectual ! — give both life and sense, Fancy... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, eye. Caught in the meshy snare, in vain they beat sublim'd. To vital spirits aspire, to animal. To intellectual ; give both life and seme, Fancy and... | |
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