For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder,... The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review - Page 4351820Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1814 - 476 pages
...highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep — and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. A II strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form ; Jehovah... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1815 - 702 pages
...highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep— and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form ; Jehovah... | |
| 1815 - 670 pages
...highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep — and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form ; Jehovah... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1816 - 802 pages
...him a dim vision of paradise, and he rises from the contemplation of transitory scenes, " to breathe in worlds * To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil." And yet there arc those who think he wants deeper mysteries — who can find no sublimity but in terras... | |
| England - 1830 - 990 pages
...highest heaven. For I must tread on shadowy ground, — must sink Deep — and aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the Heaven of Heavens is but a veil. All strength — nil terror, single, or in bands, Thtit ever was put forth in personal force — Jehovah... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 378 pages
...highest Heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep- — and, alofi ascending, breathe in worlds, To which the Heaven of Heavens is but a veil.— All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form ; Jehovah... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...critic, in reality, acquire any jurisdiction over the gejnuine poet ? Where are the lines by which he can fathom the .depths of the soul ; where the instrument...worlds, to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil 1" Can he measure a sun-beam, or constrain a cloud, or count the steps of the.bounding stag of the... | |
| Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...superstition, or sit " lone upon the shores of old romance," or pierce the veil of mortality, and " breathe in worlds to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil." The very deficiency of the romantic, in the actual paths of existence, will cause him to dwell in thought... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...superstition, or sit " lone upon the shores, of old romance," or pierce the veil of mortality, and " breathe in worlds to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil." The very deficiency of the romantic, in the actual paths' of existence, will cause him to dwell in... | |
| Arminianism - 1850 - 698 pages
...highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jebovah... | |
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