 Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will ; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But vision — yea, his...  Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. ... - Seite 288von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 464 Seiten
...strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels...the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again." l This surely means that to him, loyal to his practical duty, comes a foretaste of the complete union... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 462 Seiten
...his forehead is not air But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — 1 Holy Grail, 46. 2 Ibid. 54. In moments when he feels he cannot die, And knows...the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again." ' This surely means that to him, loyal to his practical duty, comes a foretaste of the complete union... | |
 | Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - 1900 - 718 Seiten
...not light, This air that smites his forehead Is not air. But vision— yea, his very hand and footIn moments when he feels he cannot die. And knows himself,...the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again." These lines represent Arthur as the soul and touch upon immortality. The comment of Percival : "So... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1896 - 208 Seiten
...he walks on seems not earth. This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that strikes his forehead is not air But vision—yea, his very...the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again." Here, and, as will be presently noted, elsewhere in his poetry Tennyson describes a mental state which... | |
 | Charles Macauley Stuart - 1896 - 328 Seiten
...forehead is not air, But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels he can not die, And knows himself no vision to himself, Nor the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again. — The Holy Grail. 18 • : THE NEW PMC LI 3P..RY A J« !.">;•;, ^UNC-iX r > '•> TILEU-N FILL'S... | |
 | James Lindsay - 1896 - 238 Seiten
...decisive victor. He felt what moments of high ethical and spiritual impulse there are for man who " feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, Nor the high God a vision." Yes, for deeper than all ethical impulse or foundation in Tennyson is the relation — the personal... | |
 | Charles Frederick Bradley - 1896 - 36 Seiten
...strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air, But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels he cannot die." Raphael's painting, in the Louvre, of Saint Margaret and the Dragon, glows with the victory of this... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 452 Seiten
...his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air • 9i0 But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels...Who rose again : ye have seen what ye have seen." PELLEAS AND ETTARRE. KING ARTHUR made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest ; and as he... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1897 - 566 Seiten
...strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels...the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again. But his wrong conception of faith, as somehow sundered from knowledge, leads the poet to divest God... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 614 Seiten
...human men. These three lines in Arthur's speech are the (spiritually) central lines of the Idylls : In moments when he feels he cannot die, And knows...himself no vision to himself, Nor the High God a vision. The general English view of God is as of an immeasurable clergyman; and some mistake the devil for... | |
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