 That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.  the new monthly magazine - Page 613by william francis ainsworth - 1876Full view - About this book
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. Whatever else Tennyson has taught us, he has certainly taught us that doubt may be much too confident,... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." — p. 79. The fears and doubts that issue out of the perishableness of our bodies and the sins of... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...altar stairs, That slope throngh darkness up to God, Stretch out lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." The man of science asks me to be satisfied with what is positive; to leave what is incapable of mathematical... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is...Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope."— p. 79. The fears and doubts that issue out of the perishableness of our bodies and the sins of our... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs 78 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. 79 ' So careful of the type ? ' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ' a thousand... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." — P. 79. The fears and doubts that issue out of the perishableness of our bodies and the sins of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...Upon the great world's altar-stairs 78 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust aiid chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. 79 Lv. ' So careful of the type ? ' but no. Prom scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ' a thousand... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. LV. ' So careful of the type ? ' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ' a thousand... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1851 - 284 pages
...CHAPTER I. "Fall Upon the great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God— And gather dust, and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all—" DAVID BRUCE is saying these words half aloud, and John Drayton's eye falls upon them as he bashfully... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 pages
...altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hnnds of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. If ever man were serious and earnest in his doubting, we believe him to be so. His is the wailing voice... | |
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