There lives 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 faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger... The Canadian Monthly and National Review - Pągina 38editat per - 1876Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 430 pągines
...become the watchwords and guiding principles of all nations. JOHN STERLING. IN TWO PARTS— PART II. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. TENNYSON'S "In Mcmorlam" JOHN Sterling, for causes which Archdeacon Hare does not clearly state, but... | |
| 1876 - 706 pągines
...seems to me that one is somewhat helped to the understanding of Tennyson's celebrated paradox — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," — by the following passage from Theodore Parker, quoted in the Athenceum notice of him, September... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pągines
...: one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure...doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgement blind, He faced the spectres of the mind U2 To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pągines
...: one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather 'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind 142 To... | |
| 1850 - 1052 pągines
...: one indeed I knew, In many a subtle question versed, Who touch'da jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : " Perplext in faith, but...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." Now, we repeat, that such language as this is infinitely mischievous. Such things are caught up as... | |
| 1876 - 602 pągines
...It seems to me that one is somewhat helped to the understanding of Tennyson"celebrated paradox — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," — by the following passage from Theodore Parker, quoted in the Athenccum notice of him, September... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pągines
...subtile question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But 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 me, than in half the creeds. He fought his... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pągines
...: one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touch'da jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure...doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgement blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pągines
...not: one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, "Who touch'da jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true: Perplext in faith, but pure...doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgement blind, He faced the spectres of the mind To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - 1851 - 336 pągines
...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 beat his...half the creeds. •• •* He fought his doubts and gathered strength; He would not make his judgment blind ; He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid... | |
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