| William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 936 páginas
...deal and aspire, we feel the truth expressed by Wordsworth in his tremendous lines: — ' " I mast, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is bat a veil. Not chacw, darkest pit of Erebus, Nor anght of blinder vacancy, scoop'd out By help of... | |
| 1868 - 592 páginas
...a personage, who had recently Trod on shadowy ground, bad Bunk Deep, and aloft ascending, breathed in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a...choir Of shouting angels, and the empyreal thrones, Had passed them unalarmed, should not condescend to renew an acquaintance with men and women of ordinary... | |
| 1868 - 594 páginas
...on shadowy ground, had sunk Deep, and aloft ascending, breathed in worlds THE SPIRITUAL MAGAZINE. 13 To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All...choir Of shouting angels, and the empyreal thrones, Had passed them unalarmed, should not condescend to renew an acquaintance with men and women of ordinary... | |
| Henry Crabb Robinson - 1869 - 550 páginas
...me while he smoked his pipe. I had called on him late last night, and he seemed absurdly grateful * "All strength— all terror, single or in bands, That...shouting angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed." (Preface to "The Excursion.' ) VOL. 1. II 11 CHAP.XVII. 1814. Flaxman on Wordsworth's Excursion.... | |
| Henry Crabb Robinson - 1869 - 552 páginas
...while he smoked his pipe. I had called on him late last night, and he seemed absurdly grateful * ' ' All strength— all terror, single or in bands, That...shouting angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed." (Preface to " The Excursion.") VOL. I. HH CHAP.XVII. 1814. Flaxman on WordswortKs Excursion.... | |
| Henry Crabb Robinson - 1869 - 536 páginas
...miseries, he broke the legs of some cocks and hens, in order to make them walk with wooden legs. * " All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That...Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting nngcls, nnd the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed." (Preface to " The Excursion.") Of politics... | |
| Flor Aarts - 1984 - 346 páginas
...Milton, Urania, but at once set about establishing the differences between his poem and Paradise Lost: For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep...shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed. Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out... | |
| Bernard M. G. Reardon - 1985 - 320 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| E. P. Thompson - 1994 - 284 páginas
...creatures of imagination. As he told Crabb Robinson, when he came across the lines in The Excursion: Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, I pass them, unalarmed. . . they made him ill for weeks with a bowel complaint. But earlier, in Jerusalem, we can... | |
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