Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres... The American Scholar in Professional Life - Page 11by George Gluyas Mercer - 1889Full view - About this book
| 1880 - 1028 pages
...CLAPHAM GEE AYES. Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, ' Bat in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks...made their gods of gold, Altho' the trumpet blew so lond." individuality of character : a fervent, lofty-souled woman, with a spring of sacred enthusiasm... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...listen at the gates, And hear the household jar within. [From In Memoriam.] FAITH IX DOUBT. PEKPI.EXT in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Although the trumpet blew so loud. [From In bfemoriam.] TO A FRIEXD IN HEAVEN. DEAR friend, far off,... | |
| John Kitto - 1866 - 524 pages
...more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. " He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He...peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Although the trumpet blew SO loud." la page 147 is a striking explanation of the allegory of " the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...ever strove to make it true : Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. f There lives more faith in honest doubt, '** / Believe...peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold Although the trumpet blew so loud. \XMr love has talked with rocks and trees, He finds on misty mountain-ground... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...and gather 'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind 142 To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power was with...Israel made their gods of gold Altho' the trumpet hlew so loud. 143 xcv. MY love has talk'd with rocks and trees, He finds on misty mountain-ground His... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - 1851 - 336 pages
...do so, even if the light made its way through a rent in the wall of the Temple."— COLBRIDOB. | " Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, !At last he...light alone, " But in the darkness and the cloud.' TENNYSON. "No inquirer can fix a direct and clear-sighted gate towards Truth, who is casting side glances... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - 1851 - 368 pages
...way through a rent in the wall of the Temple."— COLBRTDGE. "Perplexed in faith, but pure in deed$, At last he beat his music out ; There lives more faith...light alone, " But in the darkness and the cloud. ' TKNNVSON. "No inquirer can fix a direct and clear-sighted gaze towards Truth, who is casting side... | |
| Sir Edward Strachey - 1854 - 174 pages
...Heaven, refuse : foi you will not find Him by that path. Let mf cap your Homer with Tennyson : — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me,...the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud." F. I hear these vague generalities often enough from my neighbours, and have tried tc get a meaning... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - 1855 - 376 pages
...light made it* way through a rent in the wall of the Temple." COLEBIDOE* "Perplexed in faith, but poor in deeds, At last he beat his music out: There lives...light alone, " But in the darkness and the cloud." Tmnrrto*. "Ho inquirer can fix a direct and clear-sighted gaze towards Truth, who is casting side glances... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...drowning flies, You tell me, doubt is Devil-born. I know not : one indeed I knew In many a subtile question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first,...peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Although the tempest blew so loud. TCV. MY love has talked with rocks and trees, He finds on misty... | |
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