| Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently...become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things ... For I have learned... | |
| 1870 - 464 pages
...In which the heavy and the weary weight 40 Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently...corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood, 45 Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1897 - 1172 pages
...is a pregnant stillness; it has that quality of silence which Wordsworth had in mind when he wrote: The breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion...Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul. This subtle persuasiveness of attitude, which disarms the suspicions of the world... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...lead us on, — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood, 45 Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and...become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. 50 If this Be but... | |
| Judson B. Trapnell - Religion - 2001 - 302 pages
...mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened: that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently...become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet with the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. 14 As noted in... | |
| Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...positioning of the preposition "Until" just before the supreme moment, with the qualifying dependent clause ("the breath of this corporeal frame / And even the motion of our human blood / Almost suspended") introduced to delay and thereby enhance the climax, all contribute to the staging of this dramatic... | |
| Gordon Mursell - Religion - 2001 - 604 pages
...mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, die breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are... | |
| George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently...become a living soul. While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. (Tintern Abbey, 37-49)... | |
| Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...to metonymy but increasingly toward allegory as well." 54. Compare these lines from "Tintern Abbey": "Until, the breath of this corporeal frame/ And even...of our human blood/ Almost suspended, we are laid asleep/In body, and become a living soul" (WPW, 11. 43-46). 55. OED (2:940) dates the first use of... | |
| Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 332 pages
...argues that this occlusion in the body is the means for the emergence of the soul: we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. ("Tintern Abbey" 45-49)... | |
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