 | 1909 - 844 pages
...represent something far more permanent in human nature. They are the record lu Browning's words of . . . Hopes and fears As old and new at once as Nature's self. Ultimate indecision is not the characteristic of Tennyson's thought on these subjects, but rather the... | |
 | 1856 - 538 pages
...how can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us?—the problem here. Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell,...and fears As old and new at once as Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us ? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there 'sa sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's...and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient... | |
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell,...Euripides,— And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears i As old and new at once as Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us t — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell,...and fears As old and new at once as Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient... | |
 | John Venn - 1870 - 196 pages
...so enabling us to estimate them more fairly ;— "Just when we are safest, there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending...and fears, As old and new at once as Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in the soul." When a truth is intended for all mankind, every form of human... | |
 | 1872 - 648 pages
...he feels himself most secure in his unbelief, there flits across his soul a subtle something, — " A sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides," And all the forces of the man's nature vibrate, quiver in response, and throne again on its abandoned altar... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1872 - 310 pages
...can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell,...and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient... | |
 | 1874 - 870 pages
...we are safest, there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower bell, some one's death, A Chorus ending @ @ J J J I KjG}I~I ; To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient... | |
 | William Sanday - 1876 - 454 pages
...we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes...and fears, As old and new at once as Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul .... All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt... | |
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Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self. To rap and knock and enter in our soul,... 
