...breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing...

...sense and outward things ; Falling from us, vanishing — Blank misgivings of a creature Moving aliout in worlds not realised — High instincts, before...nature Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised. There will remain Those first affections — Those shadowy recollections — Which, be they what they...

...our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction. ibid. St. 9. Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing...

...etherealized "fountain-light" trope, which immediately follows an admonitory passage Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: (148-51) but also in the sequel (to be discussed presently),...

...sterner: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized. High instincts, before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing...

...directions: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings;...of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised. His whole life appears to occur in a possible world established by the continuity of a self. The connections...

...When the limits of perceptibility are reached, through that process of . . . obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized ("Intimations of Immortality") —when the light of sense goes out, and intimations...

...the seas of questions. Jeremy Taylor, The great Exemplar ( 1 649) 11 Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings:...of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised. William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807) 12 He is the one man who will always be...

...breast — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing...

...suggests: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized [...] (WPW, p. 461) De Quincey's ironies and contradictions are undoubtedly...