...forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side As...Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. (6.624-40; emphasis added) This famous passage once more echoes Saint John the Divine's vision of the...

...terrain of scarp and gorge. At that lonesome spot Monroe again called upon his favorite poet and cried, "The sick sight and giddy prospect of the raving stream,...Eternity, of first, and last, and midst, and without end." Ada had laughed and kissed Monroe's cheek, thinking, I would follow this old man to Liberia if he asked...

...forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears — Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside As...eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. (VI.556-72) His comment to Dorothy about this time was more orthodox: "Among the more awful scenes...

...forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side As...Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.14 This was no casual stroll in the mountains, no simple sojourn in the gentle lap of nonhuman...

...the creature will continue to be, in its limitation. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, III, iii (1936) H The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult...Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. William Wordsworth, The Prelude, 6, 634-40 Nombers refer to sections and irems Abelani, Peter 169,11...

...start of a new creative cycle as the divine energies and potencies prepare to return to their source. Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light Were...Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. — William Wordsworth, Prelude, "Crossing the Alps" CHAPTER I6 THE LITERAL QABALAH The Literal Qabalah...

...forlorn. The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky. The rocks that muttered close upon our ears. Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side As...Eternity. Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.'4 This was no casual stroll in the mountains, no simple sojourn in the gentle lap of nonhuman...

...Liu, Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989), 13. . . . the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream,...eternity, Of first, and last, and midst and without end (vu. 564-71). 'The theory of denial is Imagination,' says Alan Liu; but what is denied here is not...

...forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, 10 Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside As...face, blossoms upon one tree, Characters of the great Apocalypse,2 The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. 20...

...journey. Only as they travel (ironically) downward, does the moment of vision, quite unexpectedly, come: The unfettered clouds, and region of the Heavens,...Eternity, Of first and last, and midst, and without end. (6.635-41) An underlying message of the Simplon Pass is precisely that the moment of vision cannot...