all-seated

Updated: May 24, 2025

It is partly the sense of being lapt in a mysterious fluctuating depth of exquisite shapes of evanescent matter, falling like a cataract from an unknown airy gulf, where they grow into being and form out of the invisible well-named by the prophet Job for a prophet he was in the truest sense, all-seated in his ashes and armed with his potsherd the womb of the snow; partly the sense of motion and the goings of the wind through the etherial mass; partly the delight that always comes from contest with nature, a contest in which no vile passions are aroused, and no weak enemy goes helpless to the ground.

George MacDonald - Adela Cathcart, Volume 2