 | John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 432 sidor
...the flower of young Oxford with him, needed no Apologia to convince them of his honesty of purpose. On these things, looking over an interval of fiveand-twenty...tolling solemnly overhead has suddenly gone still. To many, no doubt, the pause was not of long continuance. Soon they began to look this way and that... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 370 sidor
...convince them of his honesty of purpose. On these things, looking over an interval of five and twenty years, how vividly comes back the remembrance of the...tolling solemnly overhead has suddenly gone still. To many, no doubt, the pause was not of long continuance. Soon they began to look this way and that... | |
 | Joseph Smith Fletcher - 1890 - 236 sidor
...secession was nothing less than the causing of a mighty blank. " It was," says Professor Shairp, " as when to one kneeling by night in the silence of...tolling solemnly overhead has suddenly gone still." It may be well here to turn from the expression of sorrow which followed his secession, to the greeting... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1891 - 558 sidor
...that voice had ceased, and we knew that we should hear it no more. It was as when, to one kneelinj; I night, in the silence of some vast cathedral, the great bell tolling solemn1 overhead has suddenly gone still. . . . Since then many voices of powerful teachers may have... | |
 | 1899 - 578 sidor
...evensong in the University church. Principal Shairp said when Newman resigned the University pulpit, " It was as when to one kneeling by night in the silence...tolling solemnly overhead has suddenly gone still." He had been vicar of St. Mary's from 1828 to 1843. Newman began his student life at Oxford at a time... | |
 | 1899 - 582 sidor
...evensong in the University church. Principal Shairp said when Newman resigned the University pulpit, " It was as when to one kneeling by night in the silence...tolling solemnly overhead has suddenly gone still." He had been vicar of St. Mary's from 1828 to 1843. Newman began his student life at Oxford at a time... | |
 | William T. Vlymen - 1904 - 520 sidor
...longer Mr. Newman's voice in St. Mary's. "On these things, looking over an interval of five and twenty years, how vividly comes back the remembrance of the...but none that ever penetrated the soul like his." Shortly after his resignation from St. Mary's Newman became a Catholic. His "Letters" show how deep... | |
 | 1906 - 914 sidor
...countenance and that voice of unearthly charm were seen and heard for the last time in the University pulpit, "It was as when to one kneeling by night, in the silence...tolling solemnly overhead has suddenly gone still." "Who," asks Matthew Arnold, " could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim... | |
 | 1906 - 906 sidor
...were seen and heard for the last time in the University pulpit, " It was as when to one kneeling by in the silence of some vast cathedral, the great bell...tolling solemnly overhead has suddenly gone still." "Who," asks Matthew Arnold, " could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim... | |
 | 1907 - 900 sidor
..." the memory of which lingers like an echo in hearts beyond counting," was no longer heard there, " it was as when to one kneeling by night in the silence...tolling solemnly overhead has suddenly gone still"; and while many in due course followed the great leader into the true home of the truths they had learnt... | |
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On these things, looking over an interval of five and twenty years, how vividly comes back the remembrance of the aching blank, the awful pause, which fell on Oxford when that voice had ceased, and we knew that we should hear it no more. It was as when,... 
