 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 sayfa
...suggested by the highest rational insight, we have, in the words of Tennyson's despairing infidel, only ' the guess of a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire.' We fully share Mr. Balfour's desire to face facts frankly ; and were the result of an accurate investigation... | |
 | 1909 - 844 sayfa
...force and efficient egotism. Poets mused mournfully over the eclipse of Faith — Faith that had become "The guess of a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire, Of a worm as it writhes in the world of the weak trodden down by the strong, Of a dying worm in a world, all massacre, murder... | |
 | 1895 - 844 sayfa
...suggested by the highest rational insight, we have, in the words of Tennyson's despairing infidel, only " the guess of a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire." We fully share Mr. Balfour's desire to face facts frankly ; and were the result of an accurate investigation... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 sayfa
...but the promise had faded away, We had passed from a cheerless night to the glare of a drearier day. He is only a cloud and a smoke, who was once a pillar of fire, The guess of a worm of the dust, and the shadow of its desire. [And] we poor orphans of nothing ; alone on that lonely... | |
 | 1882 - 896 sayfa
...but the promise had faded away We had passed from a cheerless night to the glare of a dreariei day. He is only a cloud and a smoke, who was once a pillar of fire, The guess of a worm of the dust, and the shadow of its desire. [And] we poor orphans of nothing ; alone on that lonely... | |
 | Wilfrid Philip Ward - 1885 - 286 sayfa
...action, are a delusion; that what we had thought to be a light from heaven is but an ignis fatuus, that ' He is only a cloud and a smoke who was once a pillar...a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire;' such an account, I say, when looked at by one who has the passion for religious knowledge, arouses... | |
 | Wilfrid Philip Ward - 1885 - 290 sayfa
...are a delusion ; that what we had thought to be a light from heaven is but an ignis fatuus, that ' He is only a cloud and a smoke who was once a pillar...of a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire; ' such an account, I say, when looked at by one who has the passion for religious knowledge, arouses... | |
 | Wilfrid Ward - 1885 - 290 sayfa
...to many to be but the creation of the human need for an object of supreme reverence. " He is now but a cloud and a smoke who was once a pillar of fire,...a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire." This charge is so plausible and so paralysing to the belief of one who cannot feel sure that it is... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 450 sayfa
...weighed or measured. And some of our poets follow in the same path. Arthur Clough says or sings : — He is only a cloud and a smoke, who was once a pillar...a worm in the dust, and the shadow of its desire. Matthew Arnold, indeed, has tried to compromise matters by introducing a new patent faith of his own,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 sayfa
...weighed or measured. And some of our poets follow in the same path. Arthur Clough says or sings : — He is only a cloud and a smoke, who was once a pillar...a worm in the dust, and the shadow of its desire. Matthew Arnold, indeed, has tried to compromise matters by introducing a new patent faith of his own,... | |
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The guess of a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire... 
