 The faith that life on earth is being shaped To glorious ends, that order, justice, love Mean man's completeness, mean effect as sure As roundness in the dew-drop — that great faith Is but the rushing and expanding stream Of thought, of feeling, fed...  The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems - Pagina 204door George Eliot - 1874 - 242 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 392 pagina’s
...clear him ! " MIDDLEMARCH BOOK VIII. SUNSET AND SUNRISE BOOK VIII. SUNSET AND SUNKISE. CHAPTER LXXII. Full souls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before Repeating things behind. DOROTHEA'S impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the vindication... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pagina’s
...and hour Springs the little native flower, Downward root and upward eye, Shapen by the earth and sky. Full souls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before Repeating things behind. — o — ist Gent. — All times are good to seek your wedded home Bringing... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pagina’s
...thing base ? I will not believe it. Let us BOOK VIII.—SUNSET AND SUNRISE. CHAPTER LXXII. "Fall sonls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before Repeating things behind." DOROTHEA'S impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the vindication... | |
 | George Eliot - 1874 - 246 pagina’s
...being shaped To glorious ends, that order, justice, love Mean man's completeness, mean effect as sure As roundness in the dew-drop — that great faith...making still An endless vista of fair things before Repeating things behind : so faith is strong Only when we are strong, shrinks when we shrink* It comes... | |
 | 1875 - 588 pagina’s
...even more than this. Aided in our retrospect by the clearer light and the purer ,vision, we see that " That great faith Is but the rushing and expanding...stream Of thought, of feeling, fed by all the past." As God lifts the veil from the future in respect to the power that shall rule it, and the ends to which... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pagina’s
...and hour Springs the little native flower, Downward root and upward eye, Shapen by the earth and sky. Full souls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before Repeating things behind. 1 ist Gent. — All times are good to seek your wedded home Bringing a mutual... | |
 | James Stuart (of Stretford.) - 1878 - 244 pagina’s
...even more than this. Aided in our retrospect by the clearer light and the purer vision, we see — "That great faith Is but the rushing and expanding...stream Of thought, of feeling, fed by all the past." As God lifts the veil from the future in respect to the power that shall rule it, and the ends to which... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 pagina’s
...; •we need the staff of tradition as well as the lamp of reason. What is our faith in the future but " the rushing and expanding stream Of thought, of feeling fed by all the past ?" What is our finest hope but finest memory ? The conservative instincts of George Eliot as an artist... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 484 pagina’s
...BOOK VIII. SUNSET AND SUNRISE VOL. III. U BOOK VIII. SUNSET AND SUNRISE VOL. III. U CHAPTER LXXII. Full souls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before, Repeating things behind. DOROTHEA'S impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the vindication... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1881 - 742 pagina’s
...for its irremovable basis the facts of History, which tell us that mankind have ever moved onward : that great faith Is but the rushing and expanding stream Of thought, of feeling, fed by all the past ; For finest hope is finest memory. Are you not charmed, Reader ? But, then, does it not seem to you,... | |
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