 THOU that after toil and storm *Mayst seem to have reach'da purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, Leave thou thy sister when she prays Her early heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life...  In Memoriam - Page 42by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1892 - 954 pages
...sacraments.! And the more enlightened should manifest the spirit expressed in Tennyson's words : " Leave them thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy...shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days," and seek to make their own calling and election sure.J Again approaching the subject more closely and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...Whose faithhas centre, everywhere, i Nor cares to lix itself tu fullli, -- " \ « Leave thou thy sjster when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views: Nor thou with shadow'd hint confusr A life that leads melodious days. 250 Her faith thro' form is pure as thine, Her hands are... | |
 | Allen Upward - Idealism - 1910 - 330 pages
...found foregathering with archbishops in Metaphysical Societies, gave the last generation this advice: " Leave thou thy sister when she prays Her early Heaven, her happy views." It is well-meant advice. It is kindly advice. It is the advice which the kind-hearted Idealist is always... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...blessedness like theirs ? XXXIII O thou that after toil and storm Mayst seem to have reach'da purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares...when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views ; 630 Nor thou with shadow' d hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro' form is... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...world's altar-stairs, That slope thro' darkness up to God. 1544 Tenngson : In Memoriam. Ft. liv. St. 4 Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form. Set on your foot ; And, with a heart now fir'd, I follow you, To do I know not wlmt : but it sufflceth,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1913 - 1092 pages
...is there blessedness like theirs? O thou that after toil and storm Mayst seem to have reach'da purer Had Arthur crown'd; but after, the great lords Banded, and so brake out I^eave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views; Nur tliouwith shadow'd hint... | |
 | Vernon Faithfull Storr - Great Britain - 1913 - 502 pages
...more fully developed in Phases of Faith. Tennyson's words express the teaching of both volumes — " Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form." Spirit, not form, in religion ; the free movement of personal intuition, unfettered by creed or definition... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1913 - 264 pages
...Thoughts. The great world's altar-stairs, That slope thro' darkness up to God. Tennyson: In Memoriam. Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form. Tennyson: In Memoriam. Fame; see Applause and Power. He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.... | |
 | John Henry Bridges - Positivism - 1915 - 508 pages
...others. They say with the poet : — O tbou that after toil and storm Mayst seem to have reach'da purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares...shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days.1 But to the trainer of youth, the official teacher of the doctrines disbelieved in, this alternative... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...everywhere, Nor cares to &i itself to form, Leave thon thy sister when she prays Her early heaven, bur affled dogs in vain Rave through the 0, sacred be the flesh and blood To which she links a truth divine I See thon, that conntest reason... | |
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