...By and bye, the world found me out in my lonely chamber, and called me forth—not, indeed, with a loud roar of acclamation, but rather with a still,...nothing in the world that I thought preferable to my own solitude, till at length a certain Dove was revealed to me" (CE 15:494-495). "The world" had summoned...

...already in the grave, with only life enough to be chilled and benumbed. But oftener I was happy . . . And now I begin to understand why I was imprisoned so many years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars; for if I had sooner made my escape...

...being By and by. the world found me out in my lonely chamber. and called me forth. not indeed. with a loud roar of acclamation. but rather with a still. small voice; and forth 1 went. but found nothing in the world that 1 thought preferable to my old solitude. till at length...

...By and by, the world found me out in my lonely chamber, and called me forth, — not, indeed, with a loud roar of acclamation, but rather with a still,...was imprisoned so many years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if I had sooner made my escape...

...discreetness, he wrote thus whilst he was a temporary inmate of the Union Street family mansion : — " Now I begin to understand why I was imprisoned so many years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if I had sooner made my escape...