 | George Eliot - 1874 - 256 pàgines
...sublime From out the soul of light ; but turns to noise In scrannel pipes, and makes all ears averse. The faith that life on earth is being shaped To glorious...by all the past. Our finest hope is finest memory, As they who love in age think youth is blest Because it has a life to fill with love Full souls are... | |
 | George Eliot - 1874 - 246 pàgines
...sublime From out the soul of light ; but turns to noise In scrannel pipes, and makes all ears averse. The faith that life on earth is being shaped To glorious...by all the past. Our finest hope is finest memory, As they who love in age think youth is blest Because it has a life to fill with love Full souls are... | |
 | George Eliot - 1874 - 268 pàgines
...sublime From out the soul of light ; but turns to noise In scrannel pipes, and makes all ears averse. As roundness in the dew-drop — that great faith...by all the past Our finest hope is finest memory, As they who love in age think youth is blest Because it has a life to fill with love. Full souls are... | |
 | George Eliot - 1874 - 274 pàgines
...sublime From out the soul of light ; but turns to noise In scrannel pipes, and makes all ears averse. As roundness in the dew-drop — that great faith...by all the past. Our finest hope is finest memory, As they who love in age think youth is blest Because it has a life to fill with love. Full souls are... | |
 | George Eliot - 1874 - 224 pàgines
...makes all ears averse. Mean man's completeness, mean effect as sure As roundness in the dew-drop—that great faith Is but the rushing and expanding stream...by all the past. Our finest hope is finest memory, As they who love in age think youth is blest, Because it has a life to fill with love. Full souls are... | |
 | 1875 - 588 pàgines
...the contrary — the sighs and struggles, the fruitless yearnings, and the baffled aims, we know — "That life on earth is being shaped To glorious ends...mean effect as sure As roundness in the dew-drop." Yes, and even more than this. Aided in our retrospect by the clearer light and the purer ,vision, we... | |
 | James Stuart (of Stretford.) - 1878 - 244 pàgines
...contrary — the sighs and struggles f the fruitless yearnings, and the baffled aims, we know — " That life on earth is being shaped To glorious ends...mean effect as sure As roundness in the dew-drop." Yes, and even more than this. Aided in our retrospect by the clearer light and the purer vision, we... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 pàgines
...; •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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1881 - 742 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1881 - 1180 pàgines
...insist in her novels, the nobility of doing good work well, the immortality of goodness and truth, " The faith that life on earth is being shaped To glorious ends," the joy of life and love and sympathy, the glory of self-renunciation in obedience to the higher voice... | |
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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... 
