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" Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, 'Believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The... "
Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the ... - Page 17
by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Annual Session - 1901
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 580 pages
...despise, the Bridgewater style of reasoning. The peerless author of " In Memoriam " writes : — " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun." In truth, the thoughts now presented...
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The Living Age, Volume 213

1897 - 986 pages
...darkuess, whoni we guess. I found Him not in world or sun, *_/r eagle's wing, or insect's eye, Or in the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun. If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breasing shore Which tumbled in...
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In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...our ghastliest doubt ; He, They, One, All ; within, without ; The Power in darkness whom we guess ; I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep,...
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The North British review

1851 - 622 pages
...the following lines — it is an answer to the question, Can man by searching find out God '{ — " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor thro' the questions men rimy try, The petty cobwebs wo have spun : " Jf e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice...
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Essays from the London Times: Second Series

Samuel Phillips - American literature - 1852 - 286 pages
...faith ; onr ghastliest doubt; He, They, One, All; within, without; The Power in darkness whom we guess; "I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing,..."If e'er, when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice—'Believe no more," And heard an ever breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; " A...
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Essays from the London Times: A Collection of Personal and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Phillips - English literature - 1852 - 268 pages
...our ghastliest doubt; He, They, One, All ; within, without ; The Power in darkness whom we guess ; "I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; ISTor thro' the questions men may try The petty cobwebs we have spun : " If e'er, when faith had...
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The Sunday at Home, Volume 31

1884 - 874 pages
...It almost seems as if that passage had suggested to tho poet his reply to the same question, whea ho says, "I found Him not in world, or sun, Or eagle's...insect's eye, Nor thro' the questions men may try, Tho potty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith hnd fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, ' Believe no...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 25-26

1858 - 890 pages
...Father which is in heaven." — (Matthew xvi. 17.) Tennyson's words are convincingly explicit : — " I found HIM not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Aror throiitjh tlie questions men muy try, The petty cobwebs we have spun. " If e'er, when faith...
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The Presbyterian Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1858 - 720 pages
...lessons only. Take, first, the heart's emphatic renunciation of intellectual scepticism : I found God not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun. If e'er when faith had fallen asleep,...
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...our ghastliest doubt ; He, They, One, All ; within, without ; The Power in darkness whom we guess ; I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep,...
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