 Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in...  The Christian Life, Social and Individual - Side 409av Peter Bayne - 1855 - 528 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 sider
...; they swallow'd up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of...not; in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, lie preferr'd no request ; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sider
...; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life In such access of mind, in such high hour Of...expired ; No thanks he breathed, he proffer'd no request : liapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was... | |
 | Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, George Dawes Hicks, George Stephens Spinks, Lancelot Austin Garrard, H. L. Short - 1921 - 812 sider
...of life that is in the Paradise of God : " In such access of mind, in such high hours Of revelation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffered no request ; 1 Work*, vol. iv. p '26, ll. 13-20. 2 Works, vol. viii. p. 255, 11. 673-690.... | |
 | Robert Crookall - 1969 - 204 sider
...of Songs, transl. AL Peck): "The Bridegroom is not only loving, he is love". Also with Wordsworth : "In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation...in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffered no request. Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and... | |
 | John Caird - 1880 - 398 sider
...ineffable which characterises the moments of rapt poetic feeling, — In such access of mind, in such higli hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired. Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, Ilis mind was... | |
 | Basil Willey - 1980 - 310 sider
...pulsations of the world.' And came on that which is: Wordsworth had said 'And I have felt A presence', or 'Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise' ; so poets from time to time try to communicate the incommunicable. But no one who has ever felt this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1985 - 84 sider
...they swallowed up His animal being. In them did he live, 105 And by them did he live - they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, He did not feel the God, he felt his works. Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired. 1 10 Such hour... | |
 | Peter Gardella - 1985 - 225 sider
...well worth the time. Ingersoll described the condition thus attained with an allusion to Wordsworth: In such high hour Of visitation from the Living God Thought was not.23 Ecstasy — a trancelike, self-obliterating experience of "visitation from the Living God" —... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Marshall Brown - 1989 - 532 sider
...imaginative recreation of them in literature. Wordsworth described the Wanderer in The excursion as 'Rapt into still communion that transcends / The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.'26 Poetic reinventions of ceremonies of initiation, passage and communion, often placed within... | |
 | Cleanth Brooks - 1989 - 518 sider
...faces" of the clouds touched by the sun "could . . . read . . . Unutterable love" and who was often rapt into "still communion that transcends / The imperfect offices of prayer and praise." ll But Ratliff is, as we have seen, in his own way a philosopher too, the purveyor of a rich wisdom,... | |
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