 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 544 pages
...great Ode on the ' Intimations of Immortality,' in which he speaks of ' Those obstinate qnestionings Of sense and outward things ; Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature, Moving about in worlds not realised,' &c. I heard him once make the remark that it would be a good habit to watch... | |
 | Marie Sinclair Countess of Caithness - 1876 - 508 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 realised, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
..."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. . . ." The parallels suggest a sequence: the Prelude (and here 1805 is mostly... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - 1991 - 572 pages
...example: - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for these obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings,...of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized. Wordsworth, 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality' R3: Homoioteleuton points up antitheses* (see antithesis,... | |
 | Susan Eilenberg - 1992 - 302 pages
...the conversational guarantor of poetic voice and vitality assumed: 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 Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vamshings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized. High instincts, before which our mortal Naturc Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprized . . . (144-50) These lines, which refer both to childhood... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...— Not for these I raise 140 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 Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
 | David Bromwich - 2000 - 204 pages
...directions: 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. His whole life appears to occur in a possible world established by the continuity... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 pages
...When the limits of perceptibility are reached, through that process of . . . obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings;...of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized ("Intimations of Immortality") —when the light of sense goes out, and intimations of the death or... | |
 | Daniel Sanjiv Roberts - 2000 - 338 pages
...suggests: 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;...of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized [...] (WPW, p. 461) De Quincey's ironies and contradictions are undoubtedly confusing to any comprehensive... | |
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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 Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised... 
