 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,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5801838Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 596 pages
...though few.' " So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard, Holiest of men. Urania I shall need fhy guidance, or a greater muse, if such Descend to earth,...all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form ; Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting angels, and the empyreal... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...let me find though few !' So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard— In holiest mood. Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such...breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but и veil. All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...let me find though few !' So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard— In holiest mood. Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such...earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I must tread on sbaduwy ground, must »ink Deep — and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...me find, thongh few '" So pray'd, more gaining than he ask'd, the bard, Holiest of men— I!mM < , I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater muse, if such...Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I rnii«t tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep— and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlda To which... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 908 pages
...rodomontade. As an instance of this, take the following passage from his introduction to the Excursion : '• For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep — and, aloft ascending, brealhe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil, All strength — all terror, single... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...the bard, Dollest of men — URANIA, I shall need Thr guidance, or a greater muse, if such Deceend to earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, mnst sink Deep— and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil.... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...eldest 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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1846 - 332 pages
...summer, which the dreamer follows with half shut eye, we are led into a train of thoughts " which, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is as a veil." which find no resting-place short of the throne of Him of whom it is written " when he... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Geography - 1846 - 52 pages
...summer, which the dreamer follows with half shut eye, we are led into a train of thoughts " which, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is as a veil." which find no resting-place short of the throne of Him of whom it is written " when he... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Christian sects - 1848 - 650 pages
...fount of holiest instruction he cleared his vision ; and, from the mount of contemplation, breathed in worlds to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. " But his soul was too free for the peace of his sycophantic associates; his principles were too philanthropic... | |
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