 Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal...  Essays and Marginalia - Page 141by Hartley Coleridge - 1851Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 446 pages
...breast: — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings...mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised : But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings...mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised : But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet... | |
 | Charles Swain - English poetry - 1841 - 334 pages
...palace-halls— Will shield the mountain cottagers ! THE VISIONARY. " But for those obstinate questioning* Of sense and outward things. Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized. High instincts, before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...breast : Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings...mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised : But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...of the delight, liberty, and hope, of that happy period, " But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings,...of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised." Here again the timid neophyte besought a little enlightening. " What can 'fallings from us' mean, I... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...of the delight, liberty, and hope, of that happy period, " But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings,...of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised." Here again the timid neophyte besought a little enlightening. " What can 'fallings from us' mean, I... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...fugitive ! Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realiz'd, High instincts, before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which be they what they may, Are yet the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...: — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise 5 But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings...mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised ! VOL. VI. H But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they... | |
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