...inspiration, or the workings of the Muse, or the workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree; Characters of the great Apocalypse,...Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. (6.636-40) But Wordsworth's reiteration of the transcendental view is loomed with uncertainty. One...

...peace, the darkness and the light — Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree; Characters of the great Apocalypse,...Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.22 In typical Romantic thought, the universe becomes a vast organism animated by something like...

...blossoms upon one tree, Characters of the great Apocalypse, The types and symbols of Eternity, 640 Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. That...With high and spacious rooms, deafened and stunned By noise of waters, making innocent sleep Lie melancholy among weary bones. But here I must break off...

...peace, the darkness and the light — Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree; Characters of the great Apocalypse,...Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. The narrative of The Prelude moves not by story line but by links often quite prosaic between sharp...

...crags that spake by the wayside Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree, Characters of the great apocalypse,...eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.20 Jonathan Wordsworth suggests that this passage and a manuscript draft of The Ruined Cottage...

...peace, the darkness and the light— Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree; Characters of the great Apocalypse,...Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. (6.624-40; emphasis added) This famous passage once more echoes Saint John the Divine's vision of the...

...Coleridge is a religious vision, an imagination of the workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree; Characters of the great Apocalypse,...Eternity Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. (Prelude ^.636-40) While such a vision, like Della Crusca's, is ultimately grounded in eighteenth-century...

...Alps, when Wordsworth sees the mountains as the workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree. Characters of the great Apocalypse,...Eternity, Of first and last, and midst, and without end.28 Legibility, the automatized perspicuity that familiarity with letters and literary history provides,...

...passages of the waterfall yields a sense of the "workings of one mind": ... the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree; Characters of the great Apocalypse,...Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. [Ibid., lines 636-40.] For all my sense of the power and passiveness of those Romantic voices— with...

...peace, the darkness and the light, Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree, Characters of the great apocalypse,...eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. (VI.556-72) His comment to Dorothy about this time was more orthodox: "Among the more awful scenes...