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" Leave thou thy sister when she prays Her early heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro' form is pure as thine, Her hands are quicker unto good. "
Nugae Criticae: Occasional Papers Written at the Seaside - Page 177
by Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 492 pages
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In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...form, Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow 'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her...thine, Her hands are quicker unto good. Oh, sacred he the flesh and blood To which she links a truth divine ! See thou, that countest reason ripe In holding...
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In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...seem to have reach'da purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow 'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro' form is pure as thine, Her...
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In Memoriam, Issue 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...seem to have reach'da purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow 'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro' form is pure as thine, Her...
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The English Review, Volumes 13-14

1850 - 1050 pages
...Whose faith has centre every where. (that is, no where?) — " Nor cares to fix itself to form, — " Leave thou thy sister, when she prays Her early heaven, her happy views : (How condescending !) — Nor thou ir/Ui shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days."...
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The New Church Repository and Monthly Review, Volume 4

1851 - 552 pages
...warning which many Newchurchmen may need, in their zeal, not to pull down until prepared to build up. " Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views, Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days." How often we see a loving, simple faith disturbed...
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The Princess: A Medley

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...seem to have reach' da purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow' d hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro' form is pure as thine, Her...
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 10

1861 - 490 pages
...well that there are some souls whose calm depths need never be troubled, and pleaded — " Leave tliou thy sister when she prays, Her early heaven, her happy...shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days." But while it is cruel to raise doubts in some minds, it is not less cruel to reprove them in others....
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An Excursion Among the Poets

H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...to have reached a purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, — Leave thou thy sister, when she prays, Her early heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith through form is pure as thine, Her...
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The Testimony of the Poets

Epes Sargent - 1854 - 374 pages
...to have reached a purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, — Leave thou thy sister, when she prays, Her early heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith through form is pure as thine, Her...
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THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE

WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH - 1858 - 516 pages
...have taken effect." He had no sympathy, it would seem, with the spirit of Tennyson's remonstrance, Leave thou thy sister, when she prays, Her early Heaven,...shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Miss Westbrook, the first Mrs. Shelley, was not the first Harriet whom the poet loved. A Miss Harriet...
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