 We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. 61 Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according...  The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson - Page 210by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 960 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Robert Wynne - 1868 - 170 pages
...to make it perfect. " Now, Mr. Hastings, I wanted to ask you what this means. Let me read it : — ' We have but faith ; we cannot know ; For knowledge...see ; And yet we trust it comes from Thee ; A beam of darkness ; let it grow. ' Let knowledge grow from more to more ; But more of reverence in us dwell... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be , They are but broken...yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : lit it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more. But more of reverence in us dwell ; That mind^and... | |
 | Henry I. Fotherby - 1869 - 72 pages
...means we may be led, but somehow, in due time, doubtless we shall be led, to see within THE VEIL. " Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of...according well, May make one music as before, But vaster!" THE END. APPENDIX. LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE HUNTERIAN SOCIETY SINCE ITS INSTITUTION, 1819. Presidents.... | |
 | Frederic De Peyster - 1869 - 34 pages
...sentiment. We rejoice in the coming light, though our eyes here may not be permitted to behold it. " Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of...well, May make one music, as before, " But vaster. * * * *» Nov. 9, 1868. ... | |
 | Roderick Noble - 1869 - 430 pages
...rapid progress in the development of its resources. &EVEREJJCE, ANP THE WANT OF IT IN THIS COLONY. " Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of...according well, May make one music as before, But vaster " WHEN Wilhelm Meister entered the "great Institution " where he desired to place his son Felix, his... | |
 | Rose Porter - 1870 - 184 pages
...we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. "Our little systems have their day; They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken...well, May make one Music, as before. "But vaster" I cannot tell why, but these lines always are linked in my mind with a scrap from Schiller, though... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1870 - 610 pages
...ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them Thine. Our little systems have their day; They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken...soul, according well, May make one music, as before. pp WE WERE NOT WITH THE FAITHFUL. FROM the " Canterbury Hymnal," 1863. John, M. 29 : " Blessed are... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1870 - 628 pages
...their day ; They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord! art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot...; That mind and soul, according well, May make one musie, as before. WE WERE NOT WITH THE FAITHFUL. FROH the " Canterbury Hymnal," If 83. John, M. 29... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1870 - 528 pages
...hesitate, — albeit for a moment only, — to accept the poet's reverent and humble confession : " We have but faith, we cannot know ; For knowledge...comes from thee, A beam in darkness ; let it grow !" Adopting, rather than presumptuously denying, this tender and ingepuous plea of human ignorance... | |
 | 1899 - 1078 pages
...free to examine and criticise, and by all means try to get fuller knowledge and ever clearer light? Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of...according well May make one music as before, But vaster. Too long has it been the reproach of the Church that all the progress it has made towards larger, fuller... | |
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