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,... The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review - Page 4351820Full view - About this book
 | Books - 1820 - 406 pages
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 452 pages
...highest heaven f 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, VOL. v. a That ever was put forth in personal form... | |
 | 1829 - 512 pages
...require that the Poet should " Tread on shadowy ground, sink Deep — and aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veiL" As a review of this volume has already been published in the Atheneum,* it will be unnecessary at present... | |
 | 1835 - 772 pages
...former footsteps, while he trod "on shadowy ground, sinking deep, and aloft ascending, till he breathed in worlds to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil." A like generous and affectionate acknowledgment of his obligations to Coleridge, as having been " more... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 776 pages
...former footsteps, while he trod " on shadowy ground, sinking deep, and aloft ascending, till he breathed in worlds to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil." A like generous and affectionate acknowledgment of his obligations to Coleridge, as having been "more... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...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. All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah... | |
 | Baptists - 1848 - 668 pages
...he panted to distribute through every avenue of the general heart ; he was accustomed to ;' breathe in worlds to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil," and his only desire was to elevate the degraded of every class to an unbounded participation of a mental... | |
 | 1838 - 872 pages
...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. All strength — all terror, single, or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form ; Jehovah... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep — and, a'loft 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... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 410 pages
...critic, in reality, acquire any jurisdiction over the genuine poet ? Where are the lines by which he can fathom the depths of the soul; where the instrument...the altitude of " the highest heaven of invention V' How can he judge of thoughts which penetrate the mysteries of humanity, of fancies which " in the... | |
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