 | 1895 - 816 pages
...that would survive and ultimately bless all mankind. Isaiah had optimism enough about him to believe "That good shall fall At last, far off, at last to all, And every winter change to spring." But just what distinguishes Isaiah is the " far-offness " of his contemplated events. No man would... | |
 | William Patrick Wilkie - 1865 - 220 pages
...works Without a conscience or an aim.' At the same time, I should be sorry to dogmatize about it : ' Behold we know not anything. I can but trust that...at last to all, And every winter change to spring.' You, Miss Grange, liked In Memoriam at least as poetry. Well, it is the sweetest ever penned. There... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 734 pages
...not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. • 4 Behold, we know not anything ; I can but trust that...at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. 354 SMH BALLOC. C9n(uersal N God's eternity There shall a flay arise, I When all the race of man shall... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1865 - 450 pages
...Or cast aa rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete. Behold! we know not any thing; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far...at last to all, And every winter change to spring." And he completes the picture in the following exquisite lines, relative to the final and universal... | |
 | 1865 - 826 pages
...things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth." " Behold, we know not anything ; We can but trust that good shall fall At last, far off,...at last to all, And every winter change to spring. " So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light,... | |
 | 1866 - 588 pages
...That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anything ; I can but trust that...at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. I have been led to quote from this grand poem more than I intended ; but how could I so well set forth... | |
 | George H. STRUTT - 1866 - 260 pages
...Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not. any thing; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far...at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light :... | |
 | 1866 - 652 pages
...direction which, on many thinkers, seem to exert a power. In the incautious wail — " Behold, \vc know not anything ! I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last to all." he has sung what is ever coming up, whether the Bible will admit it or not. No doubt it is a generous... | |
 | 1866 - 174 pages
...a loftier and sweeter rapture. €< Behold, we know not^anything, I can but trust that go0d sirall fall At last— far off— at last to all And every winter change to spring'." Mr. Moderator, I thank you for the courtesy which you have shown during these discussions, to me and... | |
 | 1867 - 590 pages
...one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, 'When God hath made the pile complete. " Behold, we know not anything ; I can but trust that...last, to all, And every winter change to spring." Mr. Browning, looking, in a poem in his " Dramatis Personse," on " Apparent Failure " as seen at the... | |
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Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. 
