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" Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.— I look on high ; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 418
1818
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Three Studies in Shelley, and an Essay on Nature in Wordsworth and Meredith

Sir Archibald Thomas Strong, Sir Archibald Strong - 1921 - 204 pages
...the sublime and various beauty of Mont Blanc before him, makes this conjecture as to its meaning : Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the...do I lie In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep Spread far around and inaccessibly Its circles? Such is the text as Shelley left it : but James...
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Poems of Shelley: An Anthology in Commemoration of the Poet's Death the 8th ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1922 - 258 pages
...phantom, some faint image ; till the breast From which they fled recalls them, thou art there ! IIl Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the...unfurled The veil of life and death ? or do I lie PART IV In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep iii. 1 Spread far around and inaccessibly Its...
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Poems of Shelley: An Anthology in Commemoration of the Poet's Death the 8th ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson - 1922 - 264 pages
...phantom, some faint image ; till the breast From which they fled recalls them, thou art there ! Ill Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the...unfurled The veil of life and death ? or do I lie PART IV In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep iii. 1 Spread far around and inaccessibly Its...
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The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 3

English Association - 1923 - 248 pages
...connexion Mr. Strong proposes an interpretation of a line in Mont Blanc with which we cannot agree : I look on high : Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death ? James Thomson would read ' upfurled ', which is unlikely ; but Shelley surely meant that the veil...
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A History of Dreams: A Brief Account of the Evolution of Dream Theories ...

Arthur James John Ratcliff - 1923 - 264 pages
...for ourselves, and bear witness of to others; and dreams are the likeliest of all avenues to it — " Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep."* It is an old belief, and long cherished. " For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it...
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The Lyrical Poems and Translations of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1924 - 520 pages
...From which they fled recalls them, thou art there! Some phantom, some faint image; till the breast III Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the...the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.-l look on high; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death ? or do I lie...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1926 - 758 pages
...Some phantom, some faint image; till the breast From which they fled recalls them, thou art there! in Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake *and...
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The Englishman in the Alps: Being a Collection of English Prose and Poetry ...

Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Arnold Lunn - 1927 - 328 pages
...Some phantomy some faint image; till the breast From which they fled recalls them, thou art there! Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber. And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and...
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Shelley's Process: Radical Transference and the Development of His Major Works

Jerrold E. Hogle - 1989 - 433 pages
...in what seems to be a dream are interpreted according to conflicting schemes from different sources: "Some say that gleams of a remoter world / Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber / And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber/ Of those who wake...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...influencings, Holding an unremitting interchange With the clear universe of things around; (1. 37—40) 42 (1. 49-52) EnRP; InPS; NAEL-2; NIP; NoP; OAEL-2; OBTV; TEP Music, When Soft Voices Die 43 Music, when...
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