 | 1853 - 636 pages
...delineations they meet with in a tale which they opened only for the amusement of an idle hour. ' For truth in closest words shall fail, When truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors.' The story may not (and never should) have been written with a definite didactic aim ; there... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...those who would humbly imitate Him will often find wisdom in the use of a corresponding method. For " Truth in closest words shall fail When truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors. " The author of the pages before us has most effectually adopted this principle. The " evening... | |
 | 1871 - 548 pages
...Thought, with power to act, and bring forth new thoughts of truth. " For Truth in closest words may fail, When Truth, embodied in a tale, Shall enter in at lowly doors. "Even so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness... | |
 | 1883 - 798 pages
...seated in our mystic frame, We yield all blessing to the name Of Him that made them current coin ; For Wisdom dealt with mortal powers, Where truth in...truth embodied in a tale, Shall enter in at lowly doors." To teach the Bible is not dealing with the geography of Palestine, its manners and customs,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1863 - 524 pages
...Moses and the little child that prays his prayer to the " Great God who made heaven and earth ?"• "For wisdom dealt with mortal powers, Where truth...When truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors." Let philosophers talk their talk about the Absolute, the All, the Ego, but we will know the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...Deep-seated in our mystic frame, We yield all blessing to the name Of Him that made them current coin ;/ For wisdom dealt with mortal powers, Where Truth in...When Truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...Deep-seated in our mystic frame, We yield all blessing to the name Of Him that made them current coin ; For wisdom dealt with mortal powers, Where Truth in...When Truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...Deep-seated in our mystic frame, We yield all blessing to the name Of Him that made them current coin ; For Wisdom dealt with mortal powers, Where truth in...When truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...cannot forbear reminding the reader of Tennyson's lines — " For wisdom dealt with mortal powers, When truth in closest words shall fail — When truth embodied in a tale, Shall enter in at lowly doors ; And so the word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds, In loveliness... | |
 | C H. H - 1856 - 338 pages
...you will not admit Tennyson's lines as an argument for what I have been advancing, when he says, " ' Where truth in closest words shall fail, When truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors.' " For of course I should be implying you were guilty of an inconsistency if I did not conclude... | |
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For Wisdom dealt with mortal powers, Where truth in closest words shall fail, When truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors. 
