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
| WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...ask'd, the Bard, Holiest of men. Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Pescend to earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I must tread on ihadowy ground, must sink Deep— and, aloft ascending, breathe iu worlds To which the heKven of heaveus... | |
| William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...poetical posture, when he sketched the following outline of his Recluse : For I rrmst tread on shadowv ground, must sink Deep ; and, aloft ascending, breathe...in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a velL So sat his neighbor Wilson, when he described the stream, half-veiled in snowy vapor, which flowed... | |
| John Wilson - 1864 - 334 pages
...muse. In the preface to the " Excursion," he says daringly — we fear too daringly, — " Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater muse, if such...Descend to earth, or dwell in highest heaven ! For 1 muet tread on shadowy ground, muet sink Deep — and aloft ascending, breathe in worlds Tu which... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1864 - 942 pages
...they deal and aspire, we feel the truth expressed by Wordsworth in his tremendous linea: — " I must, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. Not chaos, darkest pit of Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scoop'd out By help of dreams, can... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1864 - 358 pages
...play in the plighted clouds," of anticipations and foretastes by which the bard already " breathes in worlds, to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil ?" Can he measure a sunbeam, or constrain a cloud, or count the steps of the bounding stag of the forest,... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1867 - 936 pages
...deal and aspire, we feel the truth expressed by Wordsworth in his tremendous lines: — ' " I mast, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is bat a veil. Not chacw, darkest pit of Erebus, Nor anght of blinder vacancy, scoop'd out By help of... | |
| 1868 - 592 pages
...a personage, who had recently Trod on shadowy ground, bad Bunk Deep, and aloft ascending, breathed in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a...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... | |
| Spiritualism - 1868 - 594 pages
...on shadowy ground, had sunk Deep, and aloft ascending, breathed in worlds THE SPIRITUAL MAGAZINE. 13 To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All...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... | |
| Edward Thring - English language - 1868 - 392 pages
...come . . . I would give utterance in numerous verse. p. xii. Conditional Sentences. No. 3. Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth, or dwell in highest heaven. p. xii. First Clause wanting. Why should they be A history only of departed things? I would chant,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...let me find though few!' Bo prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Hard— In holiest mood. Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such...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... | |
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