Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in 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. An essay on the poetry of Wordsworth - 31 psl.1853 - 72 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| Robert Percival Downes - 1890 - 142 psl.
...his strength as the snow-flake beautifies Mont Blanc. III.— TEACHING CONCERNING HUMANITY. " 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1896 - 420 psl.
...* " So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard — In holiest mood.1 Urania,t I shall need 25 Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to...worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. -K, 1 1845. Holiest of Men. — ..... 1814. * See Paradise Lost, book vii. 1. 31. — ED. t " Daughter... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 psl.
...supreme Of that Intelligence which governs all — I sing : — "fit audience let me find though few ! " Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to...worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. 3° All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1958 - 196 psl.
...few!' So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard — In holiest mood. Urania, I shall need 25 Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to...heaven! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1907 - 646 psl.
...consciousness, 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... | |
| Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 psl.
...Recluse, prefacing The Excursion, Keats had read Wordsworth's invocation of a greater Muse than Milton's: if such Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven! For I must tread on shadowy ground. That "shadowy ground" is the haunt of Keats's "shadowy thought," and its place is "the Mind of Man,"... | |
| Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 psl.
...few!" So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard, Holiest of Me0. — Urania, I shall need 25 Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to...worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. 3o All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form; Jehovah... | |
| Bernard M. G. Reardon - 1985 - 320 psl.
...thought, And rolls through all things. The same 'sense sublime' finds utterance again in The Excursion For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep,...worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil - as likewise in the 1805 version of The Prelude, though here with a theistic turn The Feeling of life... | |
| Geoffrey H. Hartman - 1987 - 281 psl.
...mind, stand firm in it, gain a foothold on this treacherous realm where ecstasy and bathos alternate. "For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink / Deep—...worlds / To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil." Even in "Tintern Abbey" that "shadowy ground" is felt. The poet's act of emplacing himself remains... | |
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