Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint nor sage could fix immutably The fluent image of the unstable Best, Still changing in their very hands that wrought... The Atlantic Monthly - Stran 91870Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| George Albert Coe - 1902 - 458 strani
...or other ages. "Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs; Nor saint...Still changing in their very hands that wrought." There is, accordingly, a sense in which we may say that religion needs to adjust itself to the men... | |
| George Albert Coe - 1902 - 456 strani
...other ages. • "Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs; Nor saint nor sage could fix immutably I The fluent image of the unstable Best, Still changing in their very hands that wrought." There is,... | |
| Henry Sloane Coffin - 1907 - 298 strani
...the Most High. "Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs; Nor saint,...Still changing in their very hands that wrought." Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day and forever, and in Him every century sees the Father;... | |
| Henry Sloane Coffin - 1907 - 296 strani
...the Most High. " Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs; Nor saint,...fluent image of the unstable Best, Still changing in then" very hands that wrought." Christ differently, as year by year His Spirit leads us into more extensive... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1908 - 56 strani
...the object of their research. What they have defined is some single phase of historic religion. It is The fluent image of the unstable Best Still changing in their very hands that wrought. After catching one image distinctly and making it the standard for all else, all further change seems... | |
| Baker University - 1911 - 60 strani
...brighter day. "Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs; Nor saint,...proved Frail as frost-landscapes on a window-pane." This is the attitude of the open mind. It has clear and definite conviction, but it has none of the... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1917 - 662 strani
...our mortal veins. Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint...wrought : To-day's eternal truth To-morrow proved 430 Frail as frost- landscapes on a window-pane. Meanwhile Thou smiledst, inaccessible, At Thought's... | |
| Charles Clinton Peters - 1918 - 460 strani
...clarifying still With subsidence continually of the dregs ; Nor saint nor sage could fix immutable The fluid image of the unstable Best, Still changing in their very hands that wrought." There is accordingly a sense in which we may say that religion needs to adjust itself to the men of... | |
| Gustav Kafka - 1922 - 562 strani
...Empfindung in Lowells „Cathedral" zum Ausdruck: „Each age must worship its own thought of God .... nor saint, nor sage could fix immutably — the fluent image of the unstable Best what image man might make of bis own shadow on the flowing world — the climbing insüncl was enough... | |
| James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1924 - 522 strani
...clarifying still 1 With subsidenee continnous of the dregs ; , Nor saint nor sage cuuld fix immutably 1 The fluent image of the unstable Best, Still changing...frost-landscapes on a window-pane. Meanwhile Thou smiledst, inaceessible, At Thought's own substanee made a cage for Thought, And Truth locked fast with her own... | |
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