...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 it bear fruit to us;1— the problem here. Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell,...

...who told his agnostic companion why we cannot permanently keep our doubts untouched by faith : — "Just when we are safest, there's a sunsettouch, A fancy from a flower-bell, someone's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, And that 's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old...

...in the following lines. EH Coleridge calls attention here to Browning's Bishop Blougram's Apology: Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A...chorus-ending from Euripides — And that's enough for flftp hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self To rap and knock and enter in our soul....

...instinct to " try a fall " with the mysteries of life is too strong for us to clamp down in any such way. "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...

...convinced that we have solved its secrets, there is no mystery beyond which brings us to a pause. But 'Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch,...some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — Ai.d that's enough for fifty hopes and fears Af old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and...

...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 it bear...us? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there 'sa sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides...

...quoted too often, the spirits which neglect or deny the highest are rarely at rest or safe. They ask: "How can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us? . . . Just when we are safest, tliri rV, a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, someone's death,...

...quoted too often, the spirits which neglect or deny the highest are rarely at rest or safe. They ask; "How can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us? . . . Just when we are safest, there' 3 a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, someone's death,...

...cannot solve, nor ever shall, So give up hope accordingly to solve. What are we? unbelievers both. How can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us? — the problem here." The great Bishop had put the case for his faith in the simile of a cabin being fitted up for a long...

...whose minds are fast set in concrete creeds there is dawning the knowledge, uneasy though it be, that " 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 old...