237. scarce conscious what I wist. Scarcely conscious of what I knew. Conscious is an appositive, not a predicate adjective. The line following is the completion of was.
wist. See High School Grammar, page 176.
238. Quite shut off from everything else.
243. He saw nothing. Vacancy absorbed all space.
244. fixedness, without a place. His attention was not fixed on any definite thing; but yet his mind stood still, was inactive.
247-8. His breath was almost motionless. He seemed to have no life, yet was not dead.
249-50. He compares his mind in this state of trance to a stagnant sea, without light, limit, sound or movement.
256. Ran over. Shed tears.
257-8. Because filled with tears.
281. thine. Thy captivity.