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...poet's expression of the active intent of his imagination : — " Urauia, I shall need Thy guidance, or greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in...worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil." Not less striking is another passage in this invocation : — " Descend, prophetic Spirit! that inspir'st...

...very quintessence of the poetical posture, when he sketched- the following outline of his Eecluse: " For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep...worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil." So sat his neighbor Wilson, when he described the stream, half-veiled in snowy vapor, which flowed...

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...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,...veil. All strength — all terror — single or in hands, That ever was put forth in personal form, Jehovah with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting...

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...audience 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,...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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