 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
 | Christian sects - 1853 - 416 pages
...fount of holiest instruction he cleared his vision ; and from the mount of contemplation, breathed in worlds to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. " But his soul was too free for the peace of his sycophantic associates ; his principles were too philanthropic... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 416 pages
...fount of holiest instruction he cleared his vision ; and from the mount of contemplation, breathed in worlds to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. " But his soul was too free for the peace of his sycophantic associates ; his principles were too philanthropic... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 352 pages
...soul ; where the instrument by which he can take the altitude of " the highest heaven of invention 1" How can he judge of thoughts which penetrate the mysteries of humanity, of fancies which "m the. colours of the rainbow live, and play in the plighted clouds," of anticipations and foretastes... | |
 | Great Britain - 1854 - 500 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." Not less striking is another passage in this invocation : — " Descend, prophetic Spirit! that inspir'st... | |
 | Samuel Gilman - Literature - 1856 - 580 pages
...his Recluse : " 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." So sat his neighbor Wilson, when he described the stream, half-veiled in snowy vapor, which flowed... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 458 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 hands, That ever was put forth in personal form, Jehovah... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 458 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 - 1857 - 472 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—with... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1864 - 354 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..." in the colours of the rainbow live, and play in the plighted clouds," of anticipations and foretastes by which the bard already " breathes in worlds,... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1864 - 936 pages
...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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