 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...thing farewell. CXXtV. THAT which we dare invoke to bless ; Our dearest faith ; ourghastliestdoubt ; He, They, One, All ; within, without ; The Power in...world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep,... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 474 pages
...in the following lines ; it is an answei to the question, Can man by searching find out God ? — " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye; Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : " If e'er when faith had fallen asleep,... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 506 pages
...in the following lines ; it is an answer to the question, Can man by searching find out God 1 — ' I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : ' If e'er when faith had fallen asleep,... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1883 - 790 pages
...and in which he has left no doubt as to his meaning : — '' That which we dare invoke to bless ; " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye : Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : " If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep,... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 444 pages
...When Faith, the watcher, shall give place to sight ! LITTHLL'S LIVING AGE. FROM "IN MEMORIAM." CXXII. 'T'HAT which we dare invoke to bless ; •*• Our...insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, " Believe no more,"... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 pages
...it true; For tuo' my lip* may breathe adieu, I cannot thtuk the thing farewell. 12G 127 C. *{*l\\J THAT which we dare invoke to bless; Our dearest faith;...darkness whom we guess ; I found Him not in world or MID, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye: Nor thro' the question* men may try, The petty cobwebs we have... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 482 pages
...in the following lines ; it is an answei to the question, Can man by searching fmd out God ? — " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye; Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun: " If e'er when faith had fallen asleep,... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache (hon.) - 1884 - 456 pages
...hardly add that final causes are rejected by many firm theists, as, for instance, by Mr. Tennyson, — " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye." clerical reservations, in his Plurality of Worlds. And I may add that, in connection with this subject,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 546 pages
...my dream, and hold it true ; Fortho'mylipsmaybreatheadieu, I cannot think the thing farewell. cxxiv. That which we dare invoke to bless ; Our dearest faith;...world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell. cxxiv. That which we dare invoke to bless ; Our dearest faith...world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep,... | |
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Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, 'Believe no more' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The... 
