 Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief...  What is There in Religion? - Page 137by Henry Sloane Coffin - 1922 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1909 - 738 pages
...easier to lift the child up to you."* Rather did he answer the same writer's description of a child : " Know you what it is to be a child ? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism ; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness,... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1912 - 1002 pages
...watch for himself ? " In closing " Children's Chatter " we may use the words of Francis Thompson : " Know you what it is to be a child ? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism ; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness,... | |
 | Book collecting - 1919 - 858 pages
...this war. "Know you what it is to be a child?" said one of the great poets of the nineteenth century. "It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness,... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1909 - 104 pages
...less child-like. It is so tiring to stoop to the child, so much easier to lift the child up to you. Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism ; it is to believe in love,to believe in loveliness,... | |
 | Algernon Blackwood - 1909 - 364 pages
...HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1914 IIS HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY BEQUEST OF ROLAND BURRAGE DIXOK MAY 19, 1936 Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism ; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness,... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1909 - 148 pages
...less child-like. It is so tiring to stoop to the child, so much easier to lift the child up to you. Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of 28 baptism ; it is to believe in love,to believe in... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1909 - 104 pages
...less child-like. It is so tiring to stoop to the child, so much easier to lift the child up to you. Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of 28 baptism ; it is to believe in love,to believe in... | |
 | Algernon Blackwood - Children - 1909 - 372 pages
...ETC. MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON Know you what it it to be a child ? It ii to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism ; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness,... | |
 | American Library Association. General Meeting - Library science - 1910 - 240 pages
...faculty of "make-believe." To Thompson, Shelley is always the enchanted child. Listen a moment — "Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness,... | |
 | 1911 - 882 pages
...his ideal poet for this very spontaneity, and Shelley was spontaneous because he was ever a child. " Know you what it is to be a child ? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness,... | |
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