 | 1871 - 548 pages
...in closest words may fail, When Truth, embodied in a tale, Shall enter in at lowly doors. "Even so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands...perfect deeds More strong than all poetic thought." It might, in fact, be questioned whether one of the very lowest languages, a language perhaps of a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...Truth in closest words shall fail, When Truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands...the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave 56 XXXVII. URANIA speaks with darken'd brow : ' Thou pratest here where thou art least ; This faith... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...Truth in closest words shall fail, When Truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands...the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave XXXVII. URANIA speaks with darken "d brow : ' Thou pratest here where thou art least ; This faith has... | |
 | Heavenly thoughts - 1851 - 318 pages
...will toward men." — St. Luke, ii. 14. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands'the Creed of creeds ; In loveliness of perfect deeds,...strong than all poetic thought ; Which he may read who binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave ; And those wild eyes that watch the wave... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1855 - 802 pages
...and we gratefully accept the beautiful outline sketched of him by a living poet, who writes, ' And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands...deeds, More strong than all poetic thought; Which ho may read that binds the sheaf, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral... | |
 | 1858 - 878 pages
...ideal, a life which not only uttered truth, but embodied it in act for our everlasting example ; how lie wrought with human hands The creed of creeds In loveliness...perfect deeds More strong than all poetic thought ; how He revealed to man all the truths most worthy of his acceptance, and most needful for his admonition... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Frederick Brock - 1861 - 190 pages
...through the Son, and thus, by taking the manhood into God, reconciling the world unto Himself. " And so the Word had breath, and -wrought "With human hands...perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought: * . — _— _- . ,. ..._. Which he may read who binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the... | |
 | Lucy F. M. Phillipps - 1861 - 402 pages
...another way of teaching the truth than that by which we learnt : " And so the Word had breath, and taught With human hands the creed of creeds, In loveliness...strong than all poetic thought ; Which he may read who binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave ; And those wild eyes which watch the wave... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...Truth in closest words shall fail, When Truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds _x In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong. than all poetic thought ; Which he may read that binds... | |
 | 1862 - 1006 pages
...in closest words shall fail, When truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors. 1 And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands...perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought.' Where could we find a nobler comment upon the inspired declaration that the Mystery of godliness was... | |
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And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought... 
