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" 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,... "
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The Meaning and Value of Mysticism

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...
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Some Evidences of Mysticism in English Poetry of the Nineteenth Century

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...
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Psychical Investigations: Some Personally-observed Proofs of Survival

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...
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Currents and Eddies in the English Romantic Generation

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...
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In a Day of Social Rebuilding: Lectures on the Ministry of the Church

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 207

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1907 - 644 pages
...upon which follows the attainment of the third or unitive stage, the moment when man can ' breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil,' and perceive ' the forms Whose kingdom is where time and place are not.' Such minds ' Need not extraordinary...
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The Hibbert Journal, Volume 19

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, George Dawes Hicks, George Stephens Spinks, Lancelot Austin Garrard, H. L. Short - Philosophy - 1921 - 814 pages
...attain his end : " 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." 3 But at last he won his reward. Bringing to Nature a wealth of aspiration and desire, already half...
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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry

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...
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John Milton: Introductions

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 —...
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Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature

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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