 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5781838Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 pages
...earth or dwell in highest heaven 1 For I must tread on sbadowv ground, must ilnJt (269' 21 [i*-p — and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens Is but a velL All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth ID personal form ; Jehovah,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1878 - 450 pages
...preface to " The Excursion," he says daringly — we fear too daringly, — " Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater muse, if such Descend to...veil. All strength — all terror — single or in hands, That ever was put forth in personal form, Jehovah with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting... | |
 | 1878 - 176 pages
...look Into our minds, — into the mind of man. Treating of this theme, the soul of man, he says : — I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep ; and,...worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. Or is the essence of worship the adoration of power ? Then what power do we know, to be compared with... | |
 | William Henry Platt - 1878 - 228 pages
...clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." " Another hopes to rise from nature to supernature, and, ' aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil.' " " You but aptly describe the future of the human soul, if it has a future," earnestly added the skeptic.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 584 pages
...though few ! " So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard In holiest mood. Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to...but a veil. All strength, all terror, single or in bauds, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 pages
...few! ' So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard, 25 Holiest of men. — Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to...Deep, — and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds 30 To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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