 My own East! How nearer God we were! He glows above With scarce an intervention, presses close And palpitatingly, his soul o'er ours! We feel him, nor by painful reason know! The everlasting minute of creation Is felt there; now it is, as it was then;...  Goethe's West-Easterly Divan - Page 233by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1877 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Weiss - United States - 1871 - 348 pages
...moment. For time and space form only a " provisional cuticle " for mind in its finite condition. " He glows above With scarce an intervention, presses close And palpitatingly, His soul o'er ours! We feel Him, nor by painful reason know! The everlasting minute of creation Is felt there ; Now it... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1872 - 310 pages
...latent sting. I am glad to have seen you wondrous Florentines: Yet . . Dom. I am here to listen. Lur. My own East! How nearer God we were! He glows above...presses close And palpitatingly, his soul o'er ours! We feel him, nor by painful reason know! The everlasting minute of creation Is felt there; now it is,... | |
 | 1873 - 548 pages
...to his universe is not identical with that of the nations of the East, where God is so near, • ' He glows above With scarce an intervention, presses close, And palpitatingly, his soul o'er ours.' . Mr. Browning's own feeling is more complex than what is expressed in this passage, which he has put... | |
 | Dublin city, roy. coll. of sci - 1875 - 358 pages
...of God to His universe is not identical with that of the nations of the East, where God is so near " He glows above With scarce an intervention, presses close And palpitatingly, His soul o'er ours. " Mr. Browning's own feeling is more complex than what is expressed in this passage, which he has put... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod." " God over us, under, round us, every side! God glows above; with scarce an intervention, Presses close and palpitatingly His soul o'er ours! We feel Him, nor by painful reason know." " The soul also sees the thing perceived outside itself ;... | |
 | Edward Dowden - English literature - 1878 - 542 pages
...mystical feeling of the East, where in the unclouded sky, in the torrent of noonday light God is so near " He glows above With scarce an intervention, presses close And palpitatingly, His soul o'er ours." But the wisdom of a Western savant who in his superior intellectuality replaces the will of God by... | |
 | Robert Browning - Poetry - 1881 - 1006 pages
...across some vast distracting orb Of glory on either side that meagre thread." (.-In Spittle.) "God glows above With scarce an intervention presses close And palpitatingly His soul o'er ours I We feel Him, nor by painful reason know." (Luria.) So we are never shut in by the visible universe... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...runs across some vast distracting orb Of glory ou cither side that meagre thread." (An Epiftlt.) "God glows above With scarce an intervention presses close And palpitatingly His soul o'er ours I We feel Him, nor by painful reason know." (Liiria.) So we are never shut in by the visible universe... | |
 | Theology - 1882 - 820 pages
...Contrasting with Western conceptions of God the views prevailing in the East, the Moor says : — " My own East ! How nearer God we were ! He glows above...presses close And palpitatingly, His soul o'er ours ! We feel Him not by painful reason know All changes at his instantaneous will, Not by the operation... | |
 | John Fordyce - Faith - 1883 - 490 pages
...habit among all who have come under the influence of the spirit of the age. Browning's Moor says : ' My own East ! How nearer God we were ! He glows above,...presses close And palpitatingly, His soul o'er ours ; We feel Him, not by painful reason know. ***** All changes at His instantaneous will, Not by the... | |
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