| William Carey Richards - Science - 1885 - 152 pages
...law,' say the wise, O soul! and let us rejoice; For if He thunder by law, the thunder is yet His voice: Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and spirit with...Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands or feet." — TENNYSON, "The Higher Pantheism." NOTE 56, p. 107. " As all the morning stars together... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1885 - 526 pages
...fulfillest thy doom Making Him broken gleams, and a stiHed splendor and gloom. Speak to Him thou for Iie hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer...He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise ; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet... | |
| Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 pages
...The right heavenly man God is nearer to him than the bestial body :" and thus Tennyson sings : — " Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." — Sympathies, too, there are in style. Like those of language, they are generally displeasing —... | |
| Hannah Whitall Smith - Bible - 1885 - 334 pages
...are conscious of His presence or not. " Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit may meet; Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." '' For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb."— Ps. 139: 13. " Lord,... | |
| Lyman Abbott - Faith - 1886 - 202 pages
...fulfillest thy doom, Making Him broken gleams and a stifled splendor and gloom. Speak to him, then, for he hears, and spirit with spirit can meet. Closer...he than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." CHAPTER VII. THE IMAGE OF GOD. A SHIPWRECKED traveller, stunned by the JL\, violence with which the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...without thee ; and thou fulfillest thy doom Making Him broken gleams, and a stifled splendour and gloom. Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meetCloser is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise ; O Soul,... | |
| Lucy Larcom - Meditations - 1887 - 252 pages
...fulfillest thy doom, Making Him broken gleams and a stifled splendor and gloom. Speak to Him, then, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet : Closer...He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." SECOND MONTH. IN February, the bare boughs of the elms have a pathetic look, stretching up towards... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1888 - 338 pages
...without thee ; and thou fulfillest thy doom Making Him broken gleams, and a stifled splendour and gloom. Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit...He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise ; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet... | |
| Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club - Hertfordshire (England) - 1888 - 400 pages
...without thee ; and thou fulfillest thy doom, Making Him broken gleams, and a stifled splendour and gloom. Speak to Him thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit...He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise ; 0 Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet... | |
| Church congress - 1888 - 790 pages
...nothing else, we can address him in the words of one who understands our century well, and say : — " Speak to Him thou, for He hears, And Spirit with Spirit...Closer is He than breathing, And nearer than hands or feet." My second point is the effect of the Positive Philosophy upon the Christian religion. The... | |
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