A man and his wife having lost faith in a God, and hope of a life to come, and being utterly miserable in this, resolve to end themselves by drowning. The woman is drowned, but the man rescued by a minister of the sect he had abandoned. Annual Register - Page 90edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
| 1881 - 588 pages
...perfectly truthful one ; by which I mean that, on the whole, it agrees with the realities of the case. " A man and his wife, having lost faith in a God, and...themselves by drowning. The woman is drowned, but the man is rescued by the minister of the sect he had abandoned." There was no need to find the origin of this... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1881 - 86 pages
...is the supposed utterance of a man to his former minister. "A man and his wife, having-lost faith in God and hope of a life to come, and being utterly...themselves by drowning. The woman is drowned, but the man is saved by the minister of the sect he had attended." He has no gratitude for the minister who rescued... | |
| 1882 - 916 pages
...he has made most arduous. — Belgravia Magazine, DESPAIR. A DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. A man and his wife having lost faith in a God, and hope of a life 10 come, and being utterly miserable in this, resolve to end themselves by drowning. The woman is drowned,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1883 - 740 pages
...and then twelve of their noblest died Among their spears and chariots. DESPAIR. A DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE. A man and his wife having lost faith in a God, and...themselves by drowning. The woman is drowned, but the man is rescued by a minister of the sect he had abandoned. Is it you, that preach'd in the chapel there... | |
| English wit and humor - 1884 - 212 pages
...of poem, by Tennyson, entitled " DESPAIR, a Dramatic Monologue." The argument of the poem was that " a man and his wife having lost faith in a God, and...themselves by drowning. The woman is drowned, but the man is rescued by a minister of the sect he had abandoned." The Fortnightly Rivieui of the following month... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 546 pages
...fever, and want of care! And gone — that day of the storm — O Mother, she came to me there. DESPAIR. A man and his wife having lost faith in a God, and...rescued by a minister of the sect he had abandoned. Is it you, that preach'd in the chapel there looking over the sand ? Follow'd us too that night, and... | |
| Edmund Burke - Books - 1886 - 668 pages
...are a song Heard in the future ..." And Menaceus, listening, steals away. The seer has not pleaded in vain In two lines the poet tells the hero's character...sect he had abandoned." The pessimist turns upon the chapel -preacher, his deliverer, and upbraids him in powerful lines: — " See, we were nursed in the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson - 1887 - 324 pages
...fever, and want of care! And gone — that day of the storm — O Mother, she came to me there. DESPAIR. A man and his wife having lost faith in a God, and...rescued by a minister of the sect he had abandoned. I. Is it you, that preach'd in the chapel there looking over the sand? Follow'd us too that night,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Academic achievement - 1889 - 894 pages
...and want of care 1 And gone — that day of the storm — O Mother, she came to me there. DESPAIR. A man and his wife having lost faith in a God, and...rescued by a minister of the sect he had abandoned. I. Is it you, that preach'd in the chapel there looking over the sand ? Follow'd us too that night,... | |
| Jacob W. Shoemaker - Readers - 1882 - 228 pages
...And she has sailed a hundred years, And she will sail forevermore.' CELIA THAXTEK. DESPAIR. Abridged. A man and his wife having lost faith In a God. and hope of a life to come, and being utverly miserable in this, resolve to end themselves by drowning. The woman is drowned, but the inau... | |
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