 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 - Pàgina 38editat per - 1876Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1863 - 990 pàgines
...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...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 faith his... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pàgines
...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...than in 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... | |
 | 1863 - 1076 pàgines
...for his deeds ? No : Divine mercy was extended to him. But was mercy extended to him without faith? Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. THE SKETCHEE IN THE AEDENNES AND MOSELLE LAND. AT length I have seen the Moselle. Not from the deck... | |
 | Adam Storey Farrar - 1863 - 552 pàgines
...versed, Who touch'da jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but not in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives...than in 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... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1863 - 332 pàgines
...even if the light mado its way through a rent in the wall of the Temple." — COLEHIDOE. " PerplexM in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. " Ho fought Iris doubts and gathor'd strength ; Ho would not make his judgment blind ; He faced the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 236 pàgines
...: 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 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 doubts... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 368 pàgines
...conclusions, dreading to face the consequences of doubt, will speak thus harshly and unworthily of it. 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 of the mind, And laid... | |
 | 1866 - 246 pàgines
...number of the Guardian observed that Tennyson never wrote such " nonsense" as the following : — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." I can only assure that uninformed critic that Tennyson not only wrote these " nonsensical" lines in... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 616 pàgines
...conclusions dreading to face the consequences of doubt, will speak thus harshly and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds : * ERNEST RENAN : Essai$ de Morale, p. 138. He fought his doubts and gathered strength; He would not... | |
 | 1904 - 846 pàgines
...because they have the sanction of impulse." These creed-haters will tell you plausibly enough that 1 ' There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds " : but you must beware lest, before you know it, their song have become " For God is not censorious... | |
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