 | Arminianism - 1880 - 1028 pages
...help us toward a truer understanding of his character. He was distinguished for amiability 'He fonght his doubts, and gathered strength, He would not make...faith his own ; And Power was with him in the night, OF the same stock as the Taylors of Ongar, his father's mother being aunt to Ann and Jane and Isaac... | |
 | 1876 - 516 pages
...The religion that set forth Christ had ; and if I were speaking of another than myself I might say, "He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would...faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he gathered strength To find a stronger faith his own, And power was given him in the night, Which makes... | |
 | American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...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 judgment blind, He...came at length To find a stronger faith his own." And the conclusion of the whole poem is made to be the acquisition of this "faith that comes of self-control,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 878 pages
...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his j udgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid...came at length To find a stronger faith his own." And the conclusion of the whole poem is made to be the acquisition of this " faith that comes of self-control,... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...time troubled and perplexed him. But it may be truly said of him as he said of his dead friend:— He fought his doubts, and gathered strength, He would not make his reason blind, He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid them; thus, he came at length To find a firmer... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...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 judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind 142 To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1855 - 482 pages
...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds : He fought bis doubts and gathered strength ; lie would not make his judgment blind : He faced the spectres...came at length To find a stronger faith his own.* The course of his opinions, as we have seen, was often altered. At times he approached the strictness... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 504 pages
...and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than- in half the creeds : He fought his doubts and gathered strength ; He would...came at length To find a stronger faith his own.* The course of his opinions, as we have seen, was often altered. At times he approached the strictness... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 628 pages
...and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds : He fought his doubts and gathered strength ; He would...came at length To find a stronger faith his own.* The course of his opinions, as we have seen, was often altered. At times he approached the strictness... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 506 pages
...and unworthily of it. There lives more faitli in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds : He fought his doubts and gathered strength ; He would...came at length To find a stronger faith his own.* The course of his opinions, as we have seen, was often altered. At times he approached the strictness... | |
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He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them: thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own... 
