 | John Addington Symonds - Poetry - 1878 - 282 pages
...gaze curiously : By Thee impalpable, named Force and Thought, The solid world still ceases not to be. Lead Thou me God, Law, Reason, Duty, Life ! All names...strife ; Or, if I strive, still must I blindly follow. A MEXICAN TALE. PROLOGUE. O friend fire-hearted ! Not for us alone Are fair things holy ; nor are we... | |
 | Sir George Elliot - God - 1895 - 160 pages
...expression in the following translation from a Latin poet:— ' Lead Thou me, God, law, reason, motion, life, , All names for Thee alike are vain and hollow,...I will follow without strife, Or if I strive still I must blindly follow.' The contrast between the tendency of thought here expressed and that of your... | |
 | American poetry - 1896 - 246 pages
...resemblances we guess, Who in man's fear and love abidest sure, Whose power we feel in darkness and confess! Lead Thou me, God, Law, Reason, Duty, Life! All names...strife; Or, if I strive, still must I blindly follow. THE LIFE OF LOVE. MOST men know love but as a part of life ; They hide it in some corner of the breast... | |
 | John White Chadwick - American poetry - 1896 - 282 pages
...resemblances we guess, Who in man's fear and love abidest sure, Whose power we feel in darkness and confess! Lead Thou me, God, Law, Reason, Duty, Life! All names...strife; Or, if I strive, still must I blindly follow. THE LIFE OF LOVE. MOST men know love but as a part of life; They hide it in some corner of the breast... | |
 | Thomas Bird Mosher - Literature - 1898 - 600 pages
...of you fit inscription for your twain restingplaces ? — "Lead thou mi, God, Law, Treason, ^Motion, Life, ^All names for Thee alike are vain and hollow...without strife, Or if I strive, still must I blindly fallow /" 3. William Cory, author of lonica, published anonymously in i85S,and re-issued with additions... | |
 | Ethical culture movement - 1900 - 340 pages
...which the four lines occur : " Lead Thou me, God, Law, Reason, Motion, Life, All names alike for Thee are vain and hollow ; Lead me, for I will follow without...strife, Or if I strive, still must I blindly follow." 1 The theism or pantheism of which this verse gives the essence, with its faith in an invisible order,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Greek poetry - 1902 - 442 pages
...dictated by Cleantb.es : — " Lead Thou me, God, Law, Reason, Motion, Life ! All names alike for Thee are vain and hollow. Lead me ; for I will follow without...strife ; Or if I strive, still must I blindly follow." For many centuries physical science itself suIfered from the Emergence ,,..,-". from the dead weight... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Authors, English - 1903 - 532 pages
...below is Symonds's own translation of Cleanthes's hymn — Lead thou me, God, Law, Keason, Motion, Life, All names for Thee alike are vain and hollow...strife, • Or if I strive, still must I blindly follow ! A , MB., 412 Abbott, HN, 371 Abdy family, 13 Aberdare, Lord, 41 ' Academy,' 302, 397 Adams, Mr. Coker,... | |
 | American literature - 1903 - 462 pages
...version of Cleanthes's Hymn, a great favorite of his. Lead thou me (loci, Law, Reason, Motion, Light, All names for thee alike are vain and hollow ; Lead...strife. Or if I strive, still must I blindly follow. As I read this inscription 1 was struck with a sense of familiarity, a conscious link between the sentiment... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - English poetry - 1905 - 658 pages
...made his watchword and which are inscribed upon his tomb, — Lead Thou me God, Law, Reason, Motion, Life, All names for Thee alike are vain and hollow...strife, Or if I strive still must I blindly follow ! And his faith too is best given in his own words, in his sonnets on the Thought of Death, No. IV.,—... | |
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Life ! All names for Thee alike are vain and hollow — Lead me, for I will follow without strife ; Or, if I strive, still must I blindly follow. 
