 More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands...  Lancelot and Elaine, and Other Idylls of the King - Page 155by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 204 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Eliza Stephenson - 1863 - 322 pages
...the first time in her life, how strongly through such prayers as these — " The whole round world is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." The people seemed in no hurry to leave after the service was over. Some of them clustered together,... | |
 | Frederick James Furnivall - Arthurian romances - 1864 - 258 pages
...or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend...gold chains about the feet of God. But now farewell. / am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go — (For all my mind is clouded with... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1864 - 916 pages
...or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?...every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." BEMI-HONTHLT MEETINGS. The semi-monthly meetings of the club, during the year, have been kef up and... | |
 | Christendom - 1864 - 388 pages
...time to say much as to the fourth point, viz., unity of prayer, that communion of saints, by which — "the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of GOD." It is as essential to the spiritual life as breathing is to the bodily, — it is in answer to prayer... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...temples that are made with hands. A pathetic scene ! — recalling the fine words of the poet, — For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. Had the writer of the manifesto, however, witnessed this simple and affecting act of worship, we know... | |
 | 1865 - 588 pages
...relation by which — in another sense than the poet meant the lines, but yet in one as trne,— ' The whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.' Creation is God's first and greatest act in the material world and in the spiritual ; but in both it... | |
 | 1883 - 976 pages
...or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves, and those who call them friend?...every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." From Camelford it is but a short distance to Tintagel. There it stands — the ancient " Dnndagell,"... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?...every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. 19. But now farewell I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1866 - 494 pages
...or goats, That nourish a hlind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend...every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." If we cannot give the silver and the gold, we can pray. We ought, indeed, to give the silver and the... | |
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