 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - Liczba stron: 228
...Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue eyes Are tender over drowning flies, You tell me, doubt is Devil-born. I know not : one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - Liczba stron: 228
...Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue eyes Are tender over drowning flies, You tell me, doubt is Devil-born. I know not : one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,... | |
 | 1876 - Liczba stron: 602
...It seems to me that one is somewhat helped to the understanding of Tennyson"celebrated paradox — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," — by the following passage from Theodore Parker, quoted in the Athenccum notice of him, September... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - Liczba stron: 272
...subtile question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. f There lives more faith in honest doubt, '** / Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1851 - Liczba stron: 336
...even if the light made its way through a rent in the wall of the Temple."— COLBRIDOB. | " Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, !At last he beat his...half the creeds. •• •* He fought his doubts and gathered strength; He would not make his judgment blind ; He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1851 - Liczba stron: 368
...way through a rent in the wall of the Temple."— COLBRTDGE. "Perplexed in faith, but pure in deed$, At last he beat his music out ; There lives more faith...than in half the creeds. " He fought his doubts and gathered strength ; He would not make his judgment blind ; He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1851 - Liczba stron: 1010
...to crack, which cogitation ended at least in a doubt leaning to her side of the question, and — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," fo at least says the poet of the heart, Tennyson ; " Nelly, tell me, are you going to remain at , or... | |
 | David Thomas - 1882 - Liczba stron: 446
...to a higher and grander faith. Even that couplet of his which freethinkers so delight to quote— " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," is always sadly misapplied by them. They should read on as follows:— " He fought his doubts and gather'd... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - Liczba stron: 536
...not," he replies — "I know not : one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds."! A thoughtful writer has said, that while there is a temper of mind inventive of doubts, the cleverness... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - Liczba stron: 538
...not," he replies — "I know not : one indeed I knew In uiiiny a subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it...faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music nut. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds."! A thoughtful writer... | |
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Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 
