 Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul,...  The Twentieth Century - Page 2581905Full view - About this book
 | 1909 - 844 pages
...represent something far more permanent in human nature. They are the record lu Browning's words of . . . Hopes and fears As old and new at once as Nature's self. Ultimate indecision is not the characteristic of Tennyson's thought on these subjects, but rather the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us ? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there 'sa sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's...and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps ! we look on helplessly,... | |
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...predecessor. Where's The gain ? how can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A...Euripides,— And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears i As old and new at once as Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...Where's The gain ? how can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us t — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A...and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps ! we look on helplessly.... | |
 | John Venn - Belief and doubt - 1870 - 196 pages
...so enabling us to estimate them more fairly ;— "Just when we are safest, there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending...once as Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in the soul." When a truth is intended for all mankind, every form of human experience, every feature... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1872 - 648 pages
...he feels himself most secure in his unbelief, there flits across his soul a subtle something, — " A sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides," And all the forces of the man's nature vibrate, quiver in response, and throne again on its abandoned altar... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1872 - 310 pages
...predecessor. Where's The gain? how can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A...and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps! We look on helplessly.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 870 pages
...we are safest, there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower bell, some one's death, A Chorus ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes...and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol on his base again, — The grand Perhaps ! The author takes... | |
 | William Sanday - Bible - 1876 - 454 pages
...God himself?' But also, on the other hand : — ' Where's The gain? how can we guard our unbelief? Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears, As old and new at once... | |
 | James Brown Selkirk - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 260 pages
...from a flower bell, some one's death, A chorus ending from Euripides — And that's enough for twenty hopes and fears, As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap, and knock, and enter in his soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring Round the ancient idol on his base again | The... | |
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