 In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffered no request; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5091838Full view - About this book
 | Horace Binney Wallace - Art - 1857 - 468 pages
...spectacle: sensation, soul and form AH melted into him : they swallow'd up His animal beiug: in them did he live And by them did he live ; they were his life....in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffer'd no request; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - Art - 1857 - 468 pages
...melted Into him : they swallow'd np Ills animal being: in them did he live And by them did he lire ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living Qod, Thought was not; In enjoyment It expired. No thanks he breathed, he profler'd no request; Rapt... | |
 | Great Britain - 1857 - 496 pages
...sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live. And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, iu such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired. No... | |
 | Arthur Compton-Rickett - Authors, English - 1906 - 246 pages
...; sensation, soul and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life....in enjoyment it expired, No thanks he breathed, he professed no regret; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Romanticism - 1973 - 564 pages
...and deep joy. The clouds were touched And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. . . . His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him. It was blessedness and love. (lines 106-41) Such were the experiences which fostered the development of his mature mind which, "in... | |
 | Basil Willey - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 310 pages
...pulsations of the world.' And came on that which is: Wordsworth had said 'And I have felt A presence', or 'Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise' ; so poets from time to time try to communicate the incommunicable. But no one who has ever felt this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Literary Collections - 1985 - 84 pages
...Sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being. In them did he live, And by them did he live - they were his life....such high hour Of visitation from the living God, He did not feel the God, he felt his works. Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired. Such hour by... | |
 | Peter Gardella - Social Science - 1985 - 225 pages
...well worth the time. Ingersoll described the condition thus attained with an allusion to Wordsworth: In such high hour Of visitation from the Living God Thought was not.23 Ecstasy — a trancelike, self-obliterating experience of "visitation from the Living God" —... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 532 pages
...imaginative recreation of them in literature. Wordsworth described the Wanderer in The excursion as 'Rapt into still communion that transcends / The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.'26 Poetic reinventions of ceremonies of initiation, passage and communion, often placed within... | |
 | Cleanth Brooks - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 518 pages
...faces" of the clouds touched by the sun "could . . . read . . . Unutterable love" and who was often rapt into "still communion that transcends / The imperfect offices of prayer and praise." ll But Ratliff is, as we have seen, in his own way a philosopher too, the purveyor of a rich wisdom,... | |
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