...Oxford, re infecta'" This second sentence refers perhaps almost playfully to the Immortality OdeHigh instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprized reinforcing the sense of De Quincey as a child about to be discovered by its father in the commission...

...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), which concludes what is easily...

...recovered in images of reflexive imprisonment ("A creature / Moving about in worlds not realiz'd,/ High instincts, before which our mortal Nature /Did tremble like a guilty Thing surpriz'd," ll. 147-50). Wordsworth's lyric re-creation of capitalist and modernist Weltschmerz —...

...obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High...our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised; But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may,...

...obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High...our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised. It is only because we know that joy is transient, because, unlike the lambs and other animals,...

...obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High...our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised ! But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may,...

...more." He celebrated the importance of the faint echoes that remained from his ever-receding past: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all of our day, Are yet a master-light of all of our seeing. 2 The Sin of...

...intuitiv-visionären Wirklichkeitserfahrung erreichen und die daraus gewonnene Kraft produktiv nutzen kann. But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day. 243 Die anfanglich dargestellte Erfüllung der Natur mit einem...

...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 moral Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised 1 But for those first affections, Those shadowy...

...Aesthetics, especially 23—42). see this particularly in the image of fear, guilt, and power in the lines "High instincts before which our mortal Nature / Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised" (147—48). Anne Williams finds a Miltonic echo in these lines, recalling the way Adam and...