| 1895 - 588 oldal
...he how spiritual religion had suffered from the rigid definitions in which men had confined it. ' I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of...tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.' * His was an upward-looking faith as strong and deep as it was wide ; and the expression that it found... | |
| 1892 - 890 oldal
...presents the effect of a fully studied and gradually developed plan. Tennyson was evidently one of those Who rowing hard against the stream, Saw distant gates of Eden gleam, And did not dream it was a dream, as he himself describes them. And yet he was willing to listen with rapt attention to all who did dream... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 oldal
...angels. Cease to wail and brawl ! Why inch by inch to darkness crawl ? There is one remedy for all." " I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of...gleam, And did not dream it was a dream ; " But heard, hy secret transport led, Bv'n in the charnels of the dead, The murmur of the fountain-head — " He... | |
| 1846 - 444 oldal
...even at the distance of twelve hundred years, for the records of the heart never grow obsolete : " Age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds," but amidst all the change and confusion, " as in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man... | |
| percy b. st. john - 1846 - 436 oldal
...of twelve hundred years, for the records of the heart never grow obsolete : " Age to age succeeda, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds," but amidst all the change and confusion, " as in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man... | |
| 432 oldal
...triumphantly the good voice point) to example* of the great and good of all ages who, defying trouhle — " rowing hard against the stream, Saw distant gates...gleam, And did not dream it was a dream ; But heard hy secret transport led, Ev'n in the enamels of the dead. The murmur of the fountain-head • " And... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1849 - 328 oldal
...dull, one-sided voice, (said I,) Wilt thou make every thing a lie, To flatter me that I may die? 1 know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of...tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds. I said — I toil beneath the curse, But knowing not the universe, I fear to slide from bad to worae.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 oldal
...angels. Cease to wail and brawl ! Why inch by inch to darkness crawl ? There is one remedy for all." " I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of...was a dream ; " But heard, by secret transport led, Even in the charnels of the dead, The murmur of the fountain-head — " Which did accomplish their... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 oldal
...angels. Cease to wail and brawl! Why inch by inch to darkness crawl ? There is one remedy for all." " I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of...was a dream; "But heard, by secret transport led, Even in the charnels of the dead, The murmur of the fountain-head — " Which did accomplish their... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1851 - 216 oldal
...duH, one-sided voice, (sairt I,) Wilt thou make every thing a lie, To flatter me that I may die ? I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of...tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds. I said — 1 toil beneath the curse, But knowing not the universe, I fear to slide from bad to worse.... | |
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