 | 430 pages
...STERLING. IN TWO PARTS— PART II. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. TENNYSON'S "In Mcmorlam" JOHN Sterling, for causes which Archdeacon Hare does not clearly state, but... | |
 | 1876 - 706 pages
...seems to me that one is somewhat helped to the understanding of Tennyson's celebrated paradox — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," — by the following passage from Theodore Parker, quoted in the Athenceum notice of him, September... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me,...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgement blind, He faced the spectres of the mind U2 To find... | |
 | 1876 - 602 pages
...It seems to me that one is somewhat helped to the understanding of Tennyson"celebrated paradox — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," — by the following passage from Theodore Parker, quoted in the Athenccum notice of him, September... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...But ever strove to make it true: Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me,...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgement blind, He faced the spectres of the mind To find... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me,...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgement blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1851 - 1010 pages
...to crack, which cogitation ended at least in a doubt leaning to her side of the question, and — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," fo at least says the poet of the heart, Tennyson ; " Nelly, tell me, are you going to remain at , or... | |
 | David Thomas - 1882 - 446 pages
...to a higher and grander faith. Even that couplet of his which freethinkers so delight to quote— " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," is always sadly misapplied by them. They should read on as follows:— " He fought his doubts and gather'd... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 538 pages
...ever strove to make it true. " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music nut. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds."! A thoughtful writer has said, that while there is a temper of mind inventive of doubts, the cleverness... | |
 | Society of Friends. Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting - 1858 - 124 pages
...perfect, and that our only duty is implicitly to receive the lessons of our catechisms. — Ib. TIIEBE lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. — TENNYSON. 'Tis the sublime of man, Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves Parts and proportions... | |
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 
