 And more, my son! for more than once when I Sat all alone, revolving in myself The word that is the symbol of myself, The mortal limit of the Self was loosed, And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 3241889Full view - About this book
 | 1893 - 840 pages
...limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and yet no shade of doubt, But utter clearness, and tliro' loss of Self The gain of such large life as match'd...in words, Themselves but shadows of a shadow-world. The grand simplicity of Tennyson's character made it impossible for him ever to pose as a prophet ;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 222 pages
...mortal limit of the Self was loosed, And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and...in words, Themselves but shadows of a shadow-world. " And idle gleams will come and go, But still the clouds remain ; " The clouds themselves are children... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 546 pages
...Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and yet no shade of doubt, But ntter clearness, and thro' loss of Self The gain of such...in words, Themselves but shadows of a shadowworld. And idle gle.ime will come and go. But Mill the cloude remain ; The clouds themselves are children... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson - 1887 - 324 pages
...mortal limit of the Self was loosed, And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and...in words, Themselves but shadows of a shadow-world. "And idle gleams will come and go, But still the clouds remain;" The clouds themselves are children... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1889 - 906 pages
...mortal limit of the Self was loosed And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs , Were strange not mine — and...life, or is it always referable to delusion or disease ? Now it is undoubted that the great majority of states of true ecstasy which are now observed occur... | |
 | 1889 - 1040 pages
...394 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. March And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — -and...life, or is it always referable to delusion or disease ? Now it is undoubted that the great majority of states of true ecstasy which are now observed occur... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - 894 pages
...mortal limit of the Self was loosed, And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and...in words, Themselves but shadows of a shadowworld. " And idle gleams will come and go, But still the clouds remain ; " The clouds themselves are children... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 244 pages
...limit of the Self was loosed And passed into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange, not mine — and...large life as match'd with ours Were Sun to spark : Among the many who have described this sort of ecstasy we may mention particularly Porphyry in his... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 328 pages
...limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and yet no shade of doubt, But utter clearness, and tliro' loss of Self The gain of such large life as match'd...in words, Themselves but shadows of a shadow-world. " And idle gleams will come and go, But still the clouds remain ; " The clouds themselves are children... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...mortal limit of the Self was loosed, And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and...in words, Themselves but shadows of a shadowworld. " And idle gleams will come and go, But still the clouds remain; " The clouds themselves are children... | |
| |
