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,... A Manual of Ethics - Seite 251von John Stuart Mackenzie - 1897 - 471 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1909 - 844 Seiten
...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... | |
| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 Seiten
...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...nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand... | |
| 1856 - 542 Seiten
...predecessor. Where's The gain ? 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...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 Seiten
...Where's The gain ? how 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...Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand... | |
| John Venn - 1870 - 196 Seiten
...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...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 experience, every feature... | |
| 1872 - 648 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...predecessor. Where's The gain? 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...nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand... | |
| 1874 - 870 Seiten
...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...Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol on his base again, — The grand... | |
| William Sanday - 1876 - 454 Seiten
...God himself?' But also, on the other hand : — ' Where's The gain? how can we guard our unbelief? 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... | |
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