 | W. H. Florio Hutchisson - 1883 - 368 pàgines
...that it can play With Heaven's rainbow ; Alchemists may doubt The shining gold their crucible turns out; But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last." In returning to make a few observations on the mythology of the Hindoos, I may state that they are... | |
 | W. H. Florio Hutchisson - 1883 - 364 pàgines
...that it can play With Heaven's rainbow; Alchemists may doubt The shining gold their crucible turns out; But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last." In returning to make a few observations on the mythology of the Hindoos, I may state that they are... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pàgines
...live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well. (Edwin Arnold. But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. ( Moore. The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. (Froude. When in God thou... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pàgines
...boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! Laila Rooth. The Veiled Prophet of Khorauan. But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. Ibvl. There 'aa bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream. VWrf. Like the stained web that whitens in the... | |
 | 1912 - 584 pàgines
...time. Once connected with such a person or idea, they hang on with bulldog tenacity. As Moore says: Faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood hugs it to the last. Medical history is replete with accounts of soap-bubble enthusiasts who essayed to set the world afire... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 pàgines
...of; Morning, Her clouds and her tears are worth Evening's best light. Thomas Moore. FANATICISM. Bur Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood hugs it to the last. Thomas Moore. TREASON. O for a tongue to curse the s!.»ye, Where treason, like a deadly blight, Comes... | |
 | 1885 - 180 pàgines
...it can play With heaven's rainbow ;—alchemists may do.'.bt The shining gold their crucible gives out; But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. ON LENDINCJ A PUNCH BOWL. THIS ancient silver bowl of mine—it tells of good old times, Of joyous... | |
 | 1883 - 370 pàgines
...cease to think that it can play With Heaven's own lightning ; alchemists may doubt The shining ore their crucibles give out, But faith — fanatic faith — once wedded fast To some dead error, hugs it to the last. " HARROW SCHOOL. — The Governors of Harrow School are about to sell,... | |
 | Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes - 1886 - 516 pàgines
...that it can play With. Heaven's rainbow ; alchymists may doubt The shining gold their crucible gives out ; But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last." " In features horribler than hell e'er traced on its own The prebrood," we have been shown, in 1857,... | |
 | Richard Laishley - 1886 - 204 pàgines
...State education in Victoria," 87, 88, 91, 93. (See also " Criticism on State Education in Victoria.") " FAITH — fanatic faith — once wedded fast to some dear falsehood hugs it to the last," 86. FALSEHOOD, Power of, as against truth and power — " Falsehood, though no match for truth alone,... | |
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And they believe him !— oh ! the lover may Distrust that look which steals his soul away ; — The babe may cease to think that it can play With heaven's rainbow ;— alchymists may doubt The shining gold their crucible gives out ; — But Faith, fanatic... 
