 | Dennis Patrick Slattery - 2004 - 280 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. . . . we are here as on a darkening plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight Where ignorant... | |
 | Christopher Booker - 2004 - 748 pages
...of our next chapter, Thomas Hardy. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Losing the Plot Thomas Hardy - A Case History 'The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.' Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach (1867) It might seem odd, as we explore the way in which storytelling has... | |
 | Marcus Tanner - 2004 - 440 pages
...that I realised the songs were not being sung in Welsh or English, however, but in Spanish. Conclusion The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night- wind Matthew Arnold published 'Dover Beach' in 1867, the same year in which he delivered the... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 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...long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath THE CYCLES Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear OF LIFE And naked shingles of the world. 174... | |
 | David John Tacey - 2004 - 260 pages
...the 'sea of faith' was at low tide, and seemed to be ebbing away from the dry land of consciousness. 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... | |
 | Jordan Howard Sobel - 2003 - 676 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 bright girdle furled, But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the... | |
 | Richard J. Bernstein - 2004 - 404 pages
...faith recedes, following Matthew Arnold. This stanza from his Dover Beach captures this perspective: 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... | |
 | John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge - 2004 - 482 pages
...England was full of people who paid lip service to the Christian faith, religion itself was in retreat. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a btight girdle furl'd But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar. The sound that we... | |
 | Ralf Schneider, Christina Spittel - 2004 - 294 pages
...Weiterbearbeitung, wie es etwa in der Formulierung 'die Shakespeare-Rezeption in Deutschland' zum Ausdruck kommt. Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, 25 Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the... | |
 | John Hick - 2004 - 468 pages
...certainties began to crumble. Matthew Arnold was acutely conscious of this as he reflected on Dover beach: The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...drear And naked shingles of the world. ('Dover Beach') And in this post-Enlightenment age of doubt we have realised that the universe is religiously ambiguous.... | |
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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. 
