Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, 'Believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The... The North British Review - Strana 5071851Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - Počet stránok 508
...darkness whom we guess ; I found Him not in world or snn, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor ihro' the questions men may try. The petty cobwebs we have...asleep, I heard a voice " believe no more " And heard an ever breaking shoro That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within tho breast would melt The freezing... | |
| Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1889 - Počet stránok 344
...; our ghastliest doubt: He, they, one, all; within, without ; The power in darkness whom we guess ; I found him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing,...fall'n asleep, I heard a voice ' Believe no more,' A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And, like a man in wrath,... | |
| 1889 - Počet stránok 482
...voice, as if to himself rather than to the others, proceeded from the lips of the poet TENNYSON : — " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing,...questions men may try The petty cobwebs we have spun. " A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath,... | |
| Thomas Davidson - 1889 - Počet stránok 200
...revealed ; it is in spirit and to faith. Nay, it is only there that God Himself is to be discovered. " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing,...questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun." Nay, the understanding cannot even tell whether God is to he thought as " He, They, One," or " All,"... | |
| 1889 - Počet stránok 552
...our ghastliest doubt ; He, They, One, All ; within, without ; The Power in darkness whom we guess ; I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - Počet stránok 894
...our ghastliest doubt ; He, They, One, All ; within, without ; The Power in darkness whom we guess ; I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye j \ Nor thro' the questions men may try. The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n... | |
| Susan Coolidge - 1890 - Počet stránok 382
...Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. — ACTS xxvi. 19. IF e'er when faith had fallen asleep I heard a voice, " Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That trembled in the godless deep, A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part,... | |
| Sir Henry Jones - 1891 - Počet stránok 386
...despair ; not by that way can we come to that which is best and highest. 1 A Pillar at Sebzevar, " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing,...the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun."1 But there is another way to find God and to conquer doubt. " If e'er when faith had fall'n... | |
| John William Diggle - 1891 - Počet stránok 424
...are u 2 not frightened now by what threw the poet back upon his own indestructible convictions : " ' I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun.' " Men say to-day we are prepared... | |
| Lionel Arthur Tollemache, Beatrix Lucia Catherine Egerton Tollemache - 1891 - Počet stránok 466
...hardly add that final causes are rejected by many firm theists, as, for instance, by Mr. Tennyson, — ' I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye." clerical reservations, in bis Plurality of Worlds. And I may add that, in connection with this subject,... | |
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