 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...  How Religion Arises: a Psychological Study ... - Page 49by Duren James Henderson Ward - 1888 - 74 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...we've gained is, that belief, As unbelief before, shakes us by fits, Confounds us like its predecessor. Where's The gain ? how can we guard our unbelief,...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 - 1856 - 386 pages
...'ve gained is, that belief, As unbelief before, shakes us by fits, Confounds us like its predecessor. Where's The gain ? how can we guard our unbelief,...us ? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there 'sa sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides,... | |
 | 1856 - 538 pages
...we've gained is, that belief, As unbelief before, shakes us by fits, Confounds us like its 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 fancy from a flower-bell,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 pages
...is, that belief, As unbelief before, shakes us by fits, Confounds us like its predecessor. Where 's The gain ? how can we guard our unbelief, Make it...us ? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there 'sa sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...we've gained is, that belief, As unbelief before, shakes us by fits, Confounds us like its predecessor. 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 fancy from a flower-bell,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Sanday - 1876 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1880 - 392 pages
...is, that belief, As unbelief before, shakes us by fits, Confounds us like its predecessor. Where 's The gain ? how can we guard our unbelief, Make it...us ? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there 'sa sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides,... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...beauty or affection on earth has an import for eternity through its influence on an individual's soul, " a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides ; " and with a chorus-ending from Euripides I conclude, as expressing a trath that Browning has ever in view... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1881 - 1006 pages
...earth has an import for eternity through its influence on an individual's soul, *• a sunset- touch. A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides ; " and with a chorus-ending from Euripides I conclude, as expressing a truth that Browning has ever in view... | |
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