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 - Page 5071851Full view - About this book
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 pages
...despise, the Bridgewater style of reasoning. The peerless author of " In Memoriam " writes : — " 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." In truth, the thoughts now presented... | |
| 1897 - 986 pages
...darkuess, whoni we guess. I found Him not in world or sun, *_/r eagle's wing, or insect's eye, Or in 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-breasing shore Which tumbled in... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...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 fall'n asleep,... | |
| Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 286 pages
...faith ; onr 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,..."If e'er, when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice—'Believe no more," And heard an ever breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; " A... | |
| Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 268 pages
...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 ; ISTor thro' the questions men may try The petty cobwebs we have spun : " If e'er, when faith had... | |
| 1884 - 874 pages
...almost seems as if that passage had suggested to tho poet his reply to the same question, whea ho says, "I found Him not in world, or sun, Or eagle's wing,...insect's eye, Nor thro' the questions men may try, Tho potty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith hnd fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, ' Believe no... | |
| 1858 - 890 pages
...Father which is in heaven." — (Matthew xvi. 17.) Tennyson's words are convincingly explicit : — " I found HIM not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Aror throiitjh tlie questions men muy try, The petty cobwebs we have spun. " If e'er, when faith... | |
| Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pages
...lessons only. Take, first, the heart's emphatic renunciation of intellectual scepticism : I found God 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 - 1859 - 520 pages
...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 - 1859 - 211 pages
...; 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 inseet's eye ; Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith... | |
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