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 very... The Church Quarterly Review - Page 3511898Full view - About this book
| 1881 - 996 pages
...Before his work be done ; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Oome as they will, and many a time they come. Until this earth he walks on...This light that strikes his eye-ball is not light, The air that smites his forehead is not air, But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments... | |
| English literature - 1870 - 610 pages
...his work be done ; but, being done, 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...— yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when ho feels he cannot die. And knows himself no vision to himself, Nor the high God a vision, nor that... | |
| 1870 - 844 pages
...done, Let visions of the night or of the day 3ome, as they will ; and many a time they come, • H'.'ii this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light...not air, But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — » moments wheu he feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, Vni- the high God... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1870 - 242 pages
...his work be done ; but, being done, 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...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. And knows himself no... | |
| Criticism - 1870 - 748 pages
...his work be done ; but, being doue, 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...that strikes his eye-ball is not light, This air that amites his forehead u not air But vision.'" There has been of late a good deal of discussion as to... | |
| American periodicals - 1870 - 880 pages
...and many a time they come, Until this earth be walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes bis eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead...not air, But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — [n moments when he feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, V ii the high God... | |
| 1872 - 786 pages
...outset of his reign when he speaks of himself as " vext with waste dreams," and later, when visions come — " Until this earth he walks on seems not...air that smites his forehead is not air But vision — " when his earthly warfare is accomplished and his great adventure closed, passes also into the... | |
| 1871 - 932 pages
...he describes in the Apocalypse — 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— The light that strikes his eyeball is not light — The air that smites his forehead is not air But... | |
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