 | 1909 - 844 pages
...and perplexity constantly attend on the exercises of the speculative intellect, we are to "cling to faith ": She reels not in the storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No," siir sees the best that glimmer* tte' the worst, She feels the sun is hid but for a1 night. She spies... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1893 - 576 pages
...from, soul in soul.' It meets us again, towards the close of his life, in The Ancient Sage 3 : ' . . . Nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven...doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith.' Is this, then, all ? Are we to say that Tennyson's religion was after all nothing but 'the sunnier... | |
 | 1898 - 554 pages
...up the soil of any Faith, when you have no better seed to sow' (ii. 350). He urged men, indeed, to ' Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith.' But yet he has wise words 3 on not letting the simple outlines of truth and right become confused by... | |
 | 1886 - 532 pages
...faith which he has so often preached. Very grand are the lines which he sums up in the words — ' For nothing worthy proving can be proven Nor yet disproven : wherefore thou be wise. Cling ever to the sunnier side of Doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith ' — And those... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 546 pages
...not thyself in converse withmyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet clisproven : wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever to the sunnier...to Faith beyond the forms of Faith ! She reels not in4he storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and " No," She sees the Best that... | |
 | 1886 - 892 pages
...my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet...warring words. She brightens at the clash of * Yes * and * No,1 She seems the Best that glimmers thro' the Worst, She feels the Sun is hid but for a night,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1886 - 898 pages
...my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet...doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith I She reels not in the storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of * Yes ' and * No/ She... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1886 - 352 pages
...spenk with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself; For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Xor yet disproven : wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever...doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith! Faith reels not in the storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No", She seems... | |
 | Elizabeth Rachel Chapman - 1886 - 346 pages
...Science upon the subject. Let me append to those words these other words of wisdom which follow them : " Wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever to the sunnier...doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith ! " Aug. — -You are really content with the negative mysticism of " In Memoriam" and "The Ancient... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1886 - 240 pages
...bie bas leben Ietjrt.' THE WORDS OF BELIEF. Nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet dispraven : wherefore thou be wise. Cleave ever to the sunnier...doubt. And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith. TENNYSON, The Ancient Sage. THREE words there are — Freedom, Virtue, God — of deepest import, heartfelt,... | |
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For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith! She reels not in the storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of "Yes"... 
