 | 1865 - 496 pages
...persecution of one who was both bold and humble enough' to be able to say (with Britain's Laureate), — " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather...is Lord of All, And faintly trust the larger Hope." Our chief interest in the story of Bayle lies in the fact that he, like Sir William Hamilton, recognized... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1866 - 414 pages
...falter wncrc I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-steirs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. LV. « So careful of the type ? " but no. From scarped clilF and quarried stone She cries, " A thousand... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. LV. " So careful of the type ? " but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, " a thousand... | |
 | George H. STRUTT - 1866 - 260 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith,...Lord of all, * And faintly trust the larger hope. CCIII. AT LAST. At last all shall be well with those, His own, Whom Christ from sin and Satan has made... | |
 | 1866 - 978 pages
...I, too, am conscious of want of faith— " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather duet and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope ! " And yet, I am sure that " notliing walks with aimless feet" — that even what seems to us the... | |
 | Laura Preston - 1867 - 454 pages
...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God; I stretch Inme bunds of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope/' TENNTSON. THENCEFOBWARD for many months there was almost a "blank in the life of La Guerita DeCuba... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 1868 - 262 pages
...meaning that might seem to lie under it, " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling, with my weight of cares, Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." (uv.) " Careful of the type " is Nature ? Not even so ! " She cries ' a thousand types are gone : I... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 1078 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. Looking upon Qoheleth as such a drama, we hasten to briefly examine, I., Its Matter; II, Literary Species;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. LV. " So careful of the type ? " but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, " A thousand... | |
 | George MacDonald - English literature - 1868 - 356 pages
...slope thro' darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaffi and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. MARTHA, MARY, LAZARUS, AND ANOTHER. 331 Once more, this is how he uses the gospel-tale : Mary has returned... | |
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And... 
