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...melancholy man, though he lived almost five hundred years before that exquisite but whiggish poet:— " Let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high...lonely tower, Where I may oft' outwatch the bear, W ith thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold, What worlds, or what vast regions...

...with the smoke of my midnight lamp, which doth " Oft outwalch the bear With thrice great Hermes, and unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind." But a kind, yet mistaken, friend 01 mine, who insisted that the ' proper study of mankind is man,'...

...smoke of my midnight lamp, which doth • •' Oft outwatch the bear With thrice great Hermes, and unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind.' But a kind yet mistaken friend of mine, who insisted that the ' proper study of...

...founded, that 'it is too exuberant, and may sometimnbt charged with filling the ear more than the mind.' Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen, in some high lonely tower, Where I may outnatch the Bear With thrice great Hcrines, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds,...

...very nearly the imagination of Milton, in alluding to the same topies, has pursued the same track : " Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft out-wateh the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato,...

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...very nearly the imagination of Milton, in alluding to the same topics, has pursued the same track: " Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato,...

...'counterfeit a gloom ; Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the belman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm....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...

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