Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that 's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our... How Religion Arises: a Psychological Study ... - Page 49by Duren James Henderson Ward - 1888 - 74 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Browning - 1899 - 312 pages
...by fits, Confounds us like its predecessor. Where 's The gain ? how can we guard our unbelief, 180 Make it bear fruit to us ? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there 'sa sunset-touch, Faith In A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, doubt ?n A chorus-ending... | |
| Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus - 1899 - 700 pages
...to a point in thinking under the fig-tree when revelation was not a blinding appearance to his mind. "Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, someone's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 492 pages
...99 : xxiii, 6-9. EH Coleridge cites appositely here from Browning's 'Bishop Blougram's Apology": " Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A...Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears . . . To rap and knock and enter in our soul." Notice the elaborately designed contrast and remoteness... | |
| William W. Hudson, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1901 - 652 pages
...or other or we should not find it "rapping and knocking at and entering our souls." The point is — How can we guard our unbelief? Make it bear fruit to us? "And so the Rabbi says, — Rather I prize the doubt: Low kinds exist without, Finished and finite... | |
| Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D. - 1902 - 412 pages
...swelling problems. Ah, how continual such terrible surprises are! Who does not know such experiences? Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, And that's enough for fifty hopes and... | |
| Wilford Lash Robbins - 1903 - 210 pages
...we've gained is, that belief, As unbelief before, shakes us by fits, Confounds us like its predecessor. Where's The gain ? how can we guard our unbelief,...Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and feara As old and new at ouce as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and... | |
| 1903 - 646 pages
...we've gained is, that belief, As unbelief before, shakes us by fits, Confounds us like its predecessor. Where's The gain ? How can we guard our unbelief,...are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flour-bell, someone's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes... | |
| Ora Fletcher] [Gardner, Frank Latimer Janeway - 1903 - 112 pages
...we've gained is, that belief, As unbelief before, shakes us by fits, Confounds us like its predecessor. Where's the gain? How can we guard our unbelief, Make...bear fruit to us ? — the problem here. Just when we're safest there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending... | |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1903 - 226 pages
...is capable of • becoming the darkest and most revolutionary of doubts. Then comes the passage: — "Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 584 pages
...spring. — [A1S. M. erased.] I. [Compare Bishop Blougram's lament on the instability of unfaith — " Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A...Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears. To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there." Browning's Poetical Worhs, 1869,... | |
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