 | Daniel Dorchester - 1888 - 854 pages
...teachings, whether in himself or in others." f Full of significance are also these lines of Matthew Arnold : The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But nosv 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar. Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1889 - 258 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1890 - 220 pages
...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; 8 But now I only hear Its melanchoiy. long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love ! let us be true To one another : for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land... | |
 | 1891 - 634 pages
...and pessimism. The son of the great Thomas Arnold of Rugby, for example, can drop so low as to say : "The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1891 - 212 pages
...to think it will sooner or later be realised in fact. In the beautiful words of Matthew Arnold : — The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the... | |
 | 1891 - 806 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a light girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 372 pages
...the end seems to have led him to forego his career as a poet : "The sea of faith," he plains, — " Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be true To one another I for the world, which seems To lie before us like a. land... | |
 | 1892 - 960 pages
...Northern sea, lie feels that he is standing also on the marge of the Sea of Faith, and that it is his to hear — " Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." But the sound, instead of relaxing his emotional energies, stings them into passionate activity : —... | |
 | 1901 - 560 pages
...believed, and frankly accepted the belief, that the faith of the Christian world is practically dead. The sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. °The italics are mine. 7 Poems, p. 282. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1892 - 248 pages
...pathetic in the very calmness of its hopelessness, is almost wanting. Thomson does not tell us how " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now I only hear Its melancholy long-withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
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But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. 
