 | English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul, and form AH melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by...in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffered no request ; Rapt into still communion, that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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...request; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect qffices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the Power That made him... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...; 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...in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffered no request ; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...; his spirit drank The speetacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by...in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffered no request ; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfeet offices of prayer and... | |
 | Alexander Bethune - Biography & Autobiography - 1845 - 468 pages
...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...God, Thought was not— in enjoyment it expired." mental raving. So true is the observation of Coleridge, the productions of genius tend only to raise... | |
 | 1845 - 596 pages
...majestic aspects and powers. of nature, as these appear in mountain scenery, till they ' swallowed up his animal being ; in them did he live, and by them did he live, they were his life;' till by their mighty influence, ' his mind was a thanksgiving to the power that made him ; it was blessedness... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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...God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired. No thunks he breathed, he proffcr'd no request; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 pages
...; 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...in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffered no request ; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...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 acccts of mind, in tueh high hour Of visitalion from Ike living God, Thought wat not: in enjoyment... | |
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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,... 
