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
 | Emily Herman - Mysticism - 1916 - 426 pages
...seen already, of mystic introversion. The final term of such experiences is the ability " to breathe in worlds to which the heaven of heavens is but a veil," and to perceive " the forms whose kingdom is where time and space are not " ; in other words, Contemplation... | |
 | Sister Mary Pius Neenan - English poetry - 1916 - 96 pages
...came to feel that he must "tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep,—and aloft ascending, breathe in worlds, To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil." 107 In all this it is evident that Wordsworth, in common with other mystics, had a dim consciousness... | |
 | John Arthur Hill - Parapsychology.. - 1917 - 312 pages
...ahead that it tries to live in them before its time. To each day its task. Some mystics . . . breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil, and, being so loftily remote, they can hardly get the good of this world as they might, though indeed... | |
 | Frederick Erastus Pierce - English poetry - 1918 - 358 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... | |
 | Henry Sloane Coffin - Christian sociology - 1918 - 244 pages
...inspired imagination. We must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep — and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. We must stay ourselves on the Lord our God. 211 As in the days of Nehemiah, with whose visit to the... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 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. The shadowy ground, the depths beneath, and the heights aloft are all in the mind of man, and Milton's... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...homely contexts: 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 —... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Romanticism - 1973 - 564 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... | |
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