 | 1864 - 1164 pages
...Trembling I sit, day and night. My friends are astonisht at me : Yet they forgive my wand'nngs. I rest not from my great task : To open the eternal worlds !...expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination. O Saviour ! pour upon me thy spirit of meekness and love. Annihilate selfhood in me ! Be thou all my... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist - 1863 - 460 pages
...Trembling I sit, day and night. My friends are astonisht at me : Yet they forgive my wand'rings. I rest not from my great task : To open the eternal worlds !...expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination. O Saviour ! pour upon me thy spirit of meekness and love. Annihilate selfhood in me ! Be thou all my... | |
 | Ellis Ethelmer - 1893 - 258 pages
...("Stepping-stones to Socialism," p. 15). LX. 1. — " Their task ineffable yields wondrous gain." "... I rest not from my great task ; To open the eternal worlds !...the worlds of thought : into eternity Ever expanding the human imagination." —William Blake (" Jerusalem "). 2.—" Their energies celestial force attain."... | |
 | 1900 - 994 pages
...continually for his great task To open the eternal worlds! To open the miniature eyes Of man inward; into the worlds of thought; into eternity; Ever expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination. Whitman, in his self-conscious and blustering assumption of responsibility as seer, hardly surpassed... | |
 | Frank Granger - 1900 - 470 pages
...in the world are unmeaning apart from their symbolic interpretations. It is Blake's task, therefore, to open the immortal Eyes of Man inwards into the Worlds of thought. We have seen how the human form corresponds to the world without ; let us now trace its correspondence... | |
 | 1920 - 406 pages
...dependence upon the Master is not wanting, as the following lines from Jerusalem evidence : — I rest not from my great task : To open the eternal worlds! To...expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination. O Saviour ! pour upon me thy spirit of meekness and love. Annihilate selfhood in me ! Be thou all my... | |
 | Irene Langridge - 1904 - 322 pages
...clearly before him always, he expressed in these words in his prophetic poem of " Jerusalem": I rest not from my great task To open the Eternal Worlds, to...expanding in the bosom of God, the Human Imagination. No man ever sought more gallantly to batter down the walls of materialism which were closing round... | |
 | William Blake - 1906 - 512 pages
...Trembling I sit day and night ; my friends are astouish'd at me, Yet they forgive my wanderings, I rest not from my great task. To open the Eternal Worlds, to...inwards into the Worlds of Thought, into Eternity ; 20 Ever expanding in the Bosom of God the Human Imagination. O Saviour, pour upon me thy Spirit of... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1907 - 470 pages
...see visions, dream dreams, and prophesy and speak parables unobserved.' He says again : ' I rest not from my great task To open the eternal worlds, to...expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination.' And, writing to the uncomprehending Hayley (who had called him 'gentle, visionary Blake'), he says... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1907 - 794 pages
...which he tells us is the one great reality. For, through all his writings, Blake ' rests not from his great task ' — ' To open the eternal worlds, to...expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination.' The voices of the English poets form but one note in a mighty chorus of witnesses, to whose testimony... | |
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I rest not from my great task! To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes Of Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into Eternity Ever expanding in the Bosom of God. the Human Imagination... 
