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" Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in 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. "
An essay on the poetry of Wordsworth - Page 31
1853 - 72 pages
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the poetical works of william wordsworth

WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...' let me find, ' though few ! ' " So pray'd, more gaining than he 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—...
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The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic ...

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...
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The Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

John Wilson - 1864 - 334 pages
...Wordsworth's muse. In the preface to the " Excursion," he says daringly — we fear too daringly, — " Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater muse,...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...
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A critical history of the doctrine of a future life, with a complete ...

William Rounseville Alger - 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...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd: Author of "Ion."

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,...
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A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

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...
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On the Principles of Grammar

Edward Thring - English language - 1868 - 392 pages
...whencesoe'er they come . . . I would give utterance in numerous verse. p. xii. Conditional Sentences. No. 3. Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse,...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,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...audience 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,...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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The poetical works of William Wordsworth, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M ...

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...andience let me find though few ! ' So prayed, more gaming than he asked, the Bard— In holiest mood. Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse,...shadowy ground, must sink Deep— and, aloft ascending, hreathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is hut a veil. All strength — all terror, single...
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The poetical works of Wordsworth. Repr. of the 1827 ed., with ..., Issue 476

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...audience let me find though few !' " So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the bard, Holiest of men.— Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater muse,...if such Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven I For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep— and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To...
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