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
| 1905 - 648 Seiten
...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...no vision to himself, Nor the high God a vision." ' In January, 1869, the Bradleys were visiting at Farringford; and the poet read ' The Holy Grail '... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1906 - 302 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...One Who rose again : ye have seen what ye have seen. Is it not plain that we are here rapt from this earth into the land of the spirit? It is even safe,... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1906 - 326 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...One Who rose again : ye have seen what ye have seen. Is it not plain that we are here rapt from this earth into the land of the spirit? It is even safe,... | |
| William Emory Smyser - 1906 - 222 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...no vision to himself, Nor the high God a vision." Cf. ibid., p. 90. spiritual need and earthly circumstance has entered to achieve the glories of that... | |
| Howard Maynadier - 1907 - 488 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...Who rose again ; ye have seen what ye have seen." This teaching — that the soul sees its best visions, gets its glimpses of the Grail, not in unpractical... | |
| John Franklin Genung - 1907 - 102 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. " trail, 9 0 1 As we see him thus going steadily through duty to doom, how we are reminded of that... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 460 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. Here Arthur is real because he is Tennyson, and not the Prince Consort or another ; and the passage... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 470 Seiten
...human men. These three lines in Arthur's speech are the (spiritually) central lines of the IdyUs : In moments when he feels he cannot die And knows himself no vision to himself, Nor the High God a vision. Here Arthur is real because he is Tennyson, and not the Prince Consort or another ; and the passage... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 468 Seiten
...three lines in Arthur's speech are the (spiritually) central lines of the Idytts : In moments when be feels he cannot die And knows himself no vision to himself, Nor the High God a vision. Here Arthur is real because he is Tennyson, and not the Prince Consort or another ; and the passage... | |
| Andrew Cecil Bradley - 1920 - 284 Seiten
...becomes unreal or visionary, yet there is in the soul ' no shade of doubt, But utter clearness,' and man feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, Nor the high God a vision.1 And so, in In Memoriam, not only is this trancelike experience one in which the soul comes... | |
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