 | M H S - 1879 - 392 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...perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought. TENNYSON. f RANT, O God, that as we are bathed in the light of ^* the incarnate Word, that which shines... | |
 | 1879 - 636 pages
...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...perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought.' In Mcmoriam, TENNYSON. ' This above all— to thine ownself be true ; And it must follow, as the night... | |
 | Christina Catherine Liddell - 1879 - 270 pages
...from In Memoriam are never out of my mind (they are better than my own rude rhymes) — " ' And so the word had breath, and wrought With human hands...perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought.' " I don't cease to feel that poetry is a great power. If ever my right hand regains the cunning she... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...hi at lowly doors. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the ereed of ereeds ln loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all...thought; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builda the bouse, or digs the grave. And those wild eyes that watch tha wave ln roarings round the... | |
 | Oxford city, high sch. for girls - 1879 - 448 pages
...truth more fully than by the Life of Him, by Whose side our greatest men are but as faint shadows, Who 'wrought with human hands the creed of creeds in loveliness of perfect deeds, more strong than all poetic thought1.' Let us remember also, that though to some, indeed to most people, God has not seen n't to... | |
 | Parting words - 1879 - 324 pages
...old, for the peasant as well as the philosopher, for laymen as well as clergymen, for all alike— " Which he may read that binds the sheaf. Or builds the house, or digs the grave; Or those wild eyes which watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef." And it is an immense hindrance... | |
 | Jesus Christ, Henry Southgate - 1880 - 344 pages
...greatest dignity imaginable, and participating- of His divinity, were taken into God. ORIGEN. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands...perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought. TENNYSON. THE HOLY ONE. " Thou will not suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption." PS. xvi.10. Acts... | |
 | New truth - 1880 - 386 pages
...ideal of human life, not as a mere picture or poem, but in the shape of a living reality. " And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands...perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought." * 1 Corinthians xv. 14. He commanded the exercise of that universal charity and brotherly love which... | |
 | Heaton Edward Von Stürmer - 1880 - 220 pages
...that life which gives weight to the truth taught by Him who lived it. " And so the Word bad breatli, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In...perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought." " In morality (says Renan) as in art, to say is nothing, to do is everything." Now we all know that... | |
 | E S. P - 1880 - 594 pages
...Then truth embodied in a tola Will enter in at lowly doors. • * * * • o • Which he may read who binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the \vav» In roarings round the coral reef." The object of this Cyclopaedia of Anecdote is to assist teachers,... | |
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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... 
