 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 pages
...gradual breaking-away of the faith which had yielded life and stimulus to the generations of the past. " The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." But the utter and unrelieved despair, here so finely distilled in melody, did not enter as a permanent... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 544 pages
...-Qf human misery ; we f 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, r ^ "\ JMI -4--i' ! '-'», love, let us be true To one another ! for the world, which seei To lie before... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 pages
...gradual breaking-away of the faith which had yielded life and stimulus to the generations of the past. " The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear 1 Pis- A Her. Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind,... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - 1897 - 424 pages
...divine presence latent in the heart of reality." Philosophy of Theism, AC Fraser, p. 152. NOTE 4, p. 30. "The sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and...And naked shingles of the world." — Dover Beach, by Matthew Arnold. It is now evident that Matthew Arnold and others mistook a temporary backward current... | |
 | Arthur Galton - 1897 - 140 pages
...the same ocean round us raves, But we stand mute, and watch the waves." or these from Dover Beach : " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." It is more convincing to take a few examples and compare them with test passages from the great masters,... | |
 | 1897 - 568 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... | |
 | Richard D. Graham - 1897 - 564 pages
...cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. ' 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... | |
 | William Norman Guthrie - 1897 - 376 pages
...and joy Lifting mankind " ni 1 1 give us contentment ever. Faith used to do this for us, but alas ! " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear * Rossetti's Soothsay, St. 6. t Switzerland : 5 Isolation, p. 183-4. t The Buried Life, p. 282. Its... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1897 - 140 pages
...the same ocean round us raves, But we stand mute, and watch the waves." or these from Dover Beach : " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ; 26 But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind,... | |
 | 1897 - 680 pages
...In that wellknown poem " Dover Beach," he, too, makes the eternal sea re-echo his own despair :— 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. 
