 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Education - 1881 - 466 pages
...so blind with weeping, that you cannot discover the good that is in it all." Still, for one, — " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." H.— JH RHODES, ESQ., OF CLEVELAND. To thousands of men and women the words " Garfield at Hiram "... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 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,...quarried stone She cries, " A thousand types are gone : I care for nothing, all shall go. " Thou makest thine appeal to me : I bring to life, I bring to... | |
 | William Edward Winks - Prayer - 1881 - 290 pages
...God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not ; and it shall be given him. — James i. 5. I FALTER where I firmly trod, And falling with my...and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, ***** If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice ' ' Believe no more " And heard an ever-breaking... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - English literature - 1881 - 334 pages
...where I firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs Which slope through darkness up to God, " I stretch lame...is lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." " Break, break, break, On thy cold, gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The... | |
 | George Milner - Gardening - 1881 - 370 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. Our talk about the foxglove has led us into deep waters. The note of the subject, however, was struck... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 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. LVl. ' So careful of the type ? ' but no. From scarped cliffand quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - Baptists - 1881 - 388 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." LIBEEALISM. " Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations." Rom. xiv,... | |
 | J. T. Lloyd - Authors, American - 1881 - 358 pages
...a conscience as well as themselves. Is it sinful to feel and to say, in the words of the poet — " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather...is Lord of all. And faintly trust the larger hope" ? The new faith may not be true; but who has the authority to assure us that the old dogma is a correct... | |
 | Frederic Amadeus Malleson - Bible - 1881 - 646 pages
...the too-willing doubters of our own day, whose position is so feelingly described by Tennyson : — " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." Ver. 28 : " For it is in Him, not in ourselves, that we move and live and exist. In Him, in the most... | |
 | Theology - 1881 - 524 pages
...with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to (3 oil, I stretch lame hands of faith and grope, And gather...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. Dymuno, o'r cyfanswm byw, Na phaid un bywyd hwnt i'r bedd, B'le tardd — ond o'r hyn enaid fedd Debycaf... | |
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So careful of the type she seems. So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds. And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight... 
