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" 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 Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 267
by William Wordsworth - 1896
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The Living Age, Volume 263

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...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 31

1856 - 538 pages
...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 fancy from a flower-bell,...soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again,— The grand Perhaps! '—Vol. i. pp. 213—215. He next...
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Men and Women

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...soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps ! we look on helplessly, — There...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 31

1856 - 542 pages
...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 fancy from a flower-bell,...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...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...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 fancy from a flower-bell,...soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps ! we look on helplessly. There the...
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On Some of the Characteristics of Belief: Scientific and Religious

John Venn - 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...
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The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review, Volume 47

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...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning ...: Pauline. Paracelsus. Strafford. 1872

Robert Browning - 1872 - 310 pages
...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 fancy from a flower-bell,...soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps! We look on helplessly. There the...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 122

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...soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol on his base again, — The grand Perhaps ! The author takes no account of the...
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The Gospels in the Second Century: An Examination of the Critical Part of a ...

William Sanday - 1876 - 454 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...Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul .... All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith...
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