 | Amory Howe Bradford - Congregational churches - 1905 - 384 pages
...no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool; "And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot...could see and hear, this Vision — were it not He?" The Deity present everywhere; the Deity in some vital sense dwelling in every human soul ; the Deity... | |
 | Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus - Congregational churches - 1905 - 292 pages
...'For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool.' "And the ear of man cannot hear, the eye of man cannot see; But if we could see and hear, this Vision — were it not He?" No; He is more than the vision. Moses would not confuse the vision with Him Who is behind the vision.... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to sec is a straight staff bent in a pool ; 16 And let no buzzed whisper tell : All eyes be muffled,...Will storm his heart, Love's f ev'rous citadel ? FROM MAUD XXII Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden,... | |
 | Jacomina Korteling - Mysticism in literature - 1928 - 196 pages
...English Literature, pp. 82, 83. • Caroline Spurgeon, Mysticism' in English Literature, p. 33. And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot...could see and hear, this Vision — were it not He?". ' Rossetti was often moved into the mystic experience by the beauty in a woman's face. Keats deified... | |
 | California - 1882 - 788 pages
...for He hears, and spirit with 296 297 Closer is He than breathing and nearer than hands and feet. And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot...could see and hear, this Vision — were it not He?" And what of Wordsworth, who sings of that "Something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is... | |
 | Robert Maxwell Young - Great Britain - 1971 - 372 pages
...no God at all, says the fool, For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool; And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot...could see and hear, this Vision - were it not He? This uncertainty about the faith which can be based on such a pale God nicely reflects my general point.... | |
 | Open University - Great Britain - 1988 - 320 pages
...no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool; And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot...could see and hear, this vision — were it not He? Such a poem was a sitting duck for Swinburne. In 1880, and still relishing his reputation as an enfant... | |
 | Margot Kathleen Louis - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 266 pages
..."no man" will hear God's cry. Tennyson (providing a variation on a theme by St. Paul) declares that "the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot see" the "Vision of Him who reigns" (17, 2); Swinburne says of God, "Ears hath he, and hears not; and eyes,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...no God at all, says the fool. For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool; And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot see; But if we could see and hear, thrs Vision — were it not He? TEARS, IDLE TEARS Tears, idle tears, 1 know not what they mean, Tears... | |
 | Geoffrey Hodson - Philosophy - 1996 - 136 pages
...no God at all, says the fool ; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool ; And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot...could see and hear, this Vision — were it not He ?' As an objection to any of these practices, the suggestion may be offered that in these days there... | |
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God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law, the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some: no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool; And the ear of man cannot... 
