...felt : the transformation I perceived, As marvellously seized as in that moment When, from the blinu mist issuing, I beheld Glory, beyond all glory ever...and earth, Dazzling the soul. Meanwhile, prophetic harpa In every grove were ringing ' War shall cease ; Did ye nut hear that conquest is abjured ? Bring...

...wreck he sees a golden palace rise The appointed seat of equitable law The mild paternal sway . . . from the blind mist issuing I beheld Glory, beyond all glory ever seen. In Queen Mob Shelley has a somewhat similar phrase: Hope was seen beaming through the mists of fear....

...strife. It was so at the beginning of the French Revolution, when Wordsworth wrote : — " Meantime prophetic harps In every grove were ringing ' War...shall cease ; Did ye not hear that conquest is abjured ? ' " In all there is the same dissolution of the structure of society. The future of a revolution...

...war. It is another aspect of the clouds of idealism which revolutions trail with them at their birth. Meanwhile prophetic harps In every grove were ringing...shall cease ; Did ye not hear that conquest is abjured ? " So sang Wordsworth, and Burke referred in 1790 to " the once- warlike Gauls ". The pacifism of...

...potent shock I felt : the transformation I perceived, As marvellously seized as in that moment When, from the blind mist issuing, I beheld Glory — beyond all glory ever seen, 15 Confusion infinite of heaven and earth, Dazzling the soul. Meanwhile, prophetic harps In every grove...

...wreck he sees a golden palace rise The appointed seat of equitable law The mild paternal sway . . . from the blind mist issuing I beheld Glory, beyond all glory ever seen. - In Queen Malt Shelley has a somewhat similar phrase : Hope was seen beaming through the mists of...

...radicals of the day, himself included: The potent shock I felt: the transformation I perceived. . . . I beheld Glory — beyond all glory ever seen, Confusion...harps In every grove were ringing, "War shall cease." . . . The powers of song I left not uninvoked; and, in still groves, Where mild enthusiasts tuned a...

...projecting a dazzling vision of the French Revolution which fuses classical myth with Christian prophecy: I beheld Glory — beyond all glory ever seen, Confusion...harps In every grove were ringing, "War shall cease." ... I sang Saturnian rule Returned, — a progeny of golden years Permitted to descend and bless mankind....

...(827-81), and in Book III he talks about the fall of the Bastille and its aftermath in millennial terms: I beheld Glory — beyond all glory ever seen, Confusion...bring forth choicest flowers, to deck The tree of Liberty'.4 Earl Wasserman justly terms the above an assertion that 'For many, the millennium promised...

...potent shock I felt: the transformation I perceived, As marvellously seized as in that moment When, from the blind mist issuing, I beheld Glory, beyond...seen, Confusion infinite of heaven and earth, Dazzling (lie soul. Meanwhile, prophetic harps In every grove were ringing ' War shall cease; Did ye not hear...