 | William Wordsworth - 1896 - 452 pages
...Hearing, dark and blind ; Intricate labyrinth, more dread for thought 5 To enter than oracular cave ; Strict passage, through which sighs are brought, And...revel in abuse Of shivering flesh ; and warbled air, J0 Whose piercing sweetness can unloose The chains of frenzy, or entice a smile Into the ambush of... | |
 | 1901 - 918 pages
...hearing, dark and blind ; Intricate labyrinth, more dread for thought To enter than oracular cave ; Strict passage, through which sighs are brought, And whispers, for the heart, their slave; And shriek*, that revel in abuse Of shivering flesh ; and warbled air, Whose piercing sweetness, can unloose... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 994 pages
...Hearing, dark and blind ; Intricate labyrinth, more dread for thought To enter than oracular cave; Strict passage, through which sighs are brought, And...revel in abuse Of shivering flesh; and warbled air, 10 Whose piercing sweetness can unloose The chains of frenzy, or entice a smile Into the ambush of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 1002 pages
...than oracular cave; Strict passage, through which eg Drought, And whispers for the heart, their «b«; And shrieks, that revel in abuse Of shivering flesh; and warbled air. Whose piercing sweetness can unlooM The chains of frenzy, or entice a, sail* Into the ambush of despair; Hosannas, pealing down... | |
 | 1901 - 830 pages
...enter than oracular cave; Strict passage, throtigh which sighs are brought. And whispers, for thé heart, their slave; And shrieks, that revel in abuse...unloose The chains of frenzy, or entice a smile Into thé ambush of despair; Hosannas pcaling down thé long-drawn aisle, And requiems answered by thé... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman - 1987 - 281 pages
...shall the page . . . Lie open," begin to coincide when we shift to the "oracular cave" of the ear: "Strict passage, through which sighs are brought, / And whispers for the heart, their slave' ' (On the Power of Sound, 6-8). These lines, however, when followed by "And shrieks, that revel in... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 pages
...abuse / Of shivering flesh." The percé-phonic power of poetry, song, or music to undo this wounding, "warbled air, / Whose piercing sweetness can unloose...frenzy, or entice a smile / Into the ambush of despair," suggests a sweet piercing that counters or sublimates a bitter one. 1 "Chains of frenzy" tells us how... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 pages
...of hearing, dark and blind; Intricate labyrinth, more dread for thought To enter than oracular cave; Strict passage, through which sighs are brought, And...revel in abuse Of shivering flesh; and warbled air, 10 Whose piercing sweetness can unloose The chains of frenzy, or entice a smile Into the ambush of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 538 pages
...Wordsworth's Poetical Works. [Oct. it1 feels the mysterious power of music, and gives significance to that « Warbled air, Whose piercing sweetness can unloose...frenzy, or entice a smile Into the ambush of despair " ; it reveres duty as the " stern daughter of the voice of God," and knows " A Voice to light gave... | |
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THY functions are ethereal, As if within thee dwelt a glancing mind, Organ of vision ! And a Spirit aerial Informs the cell of Hearing, dark and blind ; Intricate labyrinth, more dread for thought To enter than oracular cave... 
