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 311853 - 72 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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—... | |
| 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
...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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