 As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, And ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in some confused dream To states of mystical similitude ; If one but speaks or hems or stirs his chair, Ever the wonder waxeth more and more, So that we...  Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life - Pàgina 42per Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley - 1877 - 502 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 604 pàgines
...past," when, according to Tennyson's more particular description of this mental phenomenon, — " We ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in a confused dream, To states of mystical similitude. If one but speaks, or hems, or stirs his chair.... | |
 | 1845 - 648 pàgines
...holds commune with the invisible world, recalls the past and foresees the future — moods when " We ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in a confused dream To states of mystical similitude." The new Platonists, who regarded this class of... | |
 | 1857 - 692 pàgines
...been contributed about it. The sonnet does not appear in the recent editions of his collected poems. " As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, And...ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in a confused dream To states of mystical similitude ; If one but speaks or hems or stirs his chair, Ever... | |
 | John Timbs - 1859 - 312 pàgines
...Lockhart's Life of Scott. Tennyson has the following impressive sonnet upon this strange subject : As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, And...ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in a confused dream To states of mystical similitude ; If one but speaks, or hems, or stirs his chair,... | |
 | 1864 - 1164 pàgines
...similai remarks in their novels, and Tennyson adverts to the sensan'oi in a beautiful sonnet : — " As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, And ebb into a former life, or seein To lapse far back in a confused dream To states of mystical similitude ; If one but speaks, or... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pàgines
...make similar remarks in their novels, and Tennyson adverts to the sensation in a beautiful sonnet : paper cut in form of gloves, whereon was written...deceased's name, age, &c., together with long slips o a confused dream To states of mystical similitude ; If one but speaks, or hems, or stirs his chair,... | |
 | 1863 - 648 pàgines
...mental condition with the finely organized apprehension of a poet : — " As when with downcast eyes wo muse and brood, And ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in a confused dream To states of mystical similitude ; If one but speaks, or hems, or stirs his chair,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pàgines
...Js, who stand now, when we should aid the right — A matter to be wept with tears of blood ! SONNET. As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, And...ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in a confused dream To states of mystical similitude ; ~.f one but speaks or hems or stirs his chair,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pàgines
...should aid the A matter to be wept with tears of blood ! SONNET. As when with downcast eyes we mase and brood, And ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse fur back in a coufusùd dream To states of mystical similitude ; If one but speaks or hems or stirs... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 532 pàgines
...who stand now when we should aid the rigbt — • A matter to be wept with tears of blood ! SONNET. As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, And...ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in a confused dream To states of mystical similitude ; If one but speaks or hems or stirs his chair, Ever... | |
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