 Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 101by William Wordsworth - 1828 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 360 pages
...blessed mood, In which the burden of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all thia unintelligible world, Is lightened : that serene 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." " And I have felt... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - Spiritualism - 1868 - 428 pages
...— that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of our corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human...become a living soul ; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, \Ve see into the life of things.11 The medium state,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood In which the burden of the mystery, In -which the heavy and the weary...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Psychology - 1869 - 432 pages
...of our pulses, until we pass into that state of mind so beautifully described by Wordsworth, — ' That serene and blessed mood In which the affections...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. 1 "The mesmeric vision,... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1869 - 392 pages
...evoke, and yielding ourselves to the devout reveries he has so described, may gradually sink into — ' that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections...asleep In body, and become a living soul ; While with a heart made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep sense of joy, We see into the life of things."... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - Quotations - 1870 - 254 pages
...many acts of daily life, describes thus the other particulars in which he is indebted to them : — " Nor less I trust To them I may have owed another gift...things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh ! how oft, In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless delight, when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...divine message. Such is the state, described by Wordsworth, such the " Blessed mood In which the burden of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight...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... | |
 | John Rodden - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 546 pages
...from Tintern Abbey (though Mr. Trilling does not use this passage himself), where Wordsworth speaks of that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections...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. Mr. Trilling believes... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - American poetry - 2001 - 276 pages
...or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust, To...things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft — In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable,... | |
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