And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law, — /^""'Though... The Journal of Speculative Philosophy - Page 3751885Full view - About this book
| George Holmes Howison - Evolution - 1901 - 446 pages
...after infinite moral growth that has once arisen in a spirit, is not, and cannot be, for such a spirit, true God at all : — The wish that of the living...in their slime, Were mellow music, matched with him ! The profound feeling which Tennyson has here so memorably expressed, gives your question of this... | |
| United States - 1901 - 478 pages
...lived also man, not yet so far emerged as to master and subdue it, or to subdue and master himself. " Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music matched with him!" How much longer this state of affairs might have lasted we know not, had it not everywhere been broken... | |
| Cornelius Beach Bradley - History, Modern - 1901 - 38 pages
...lived also man, not yet so far emerged as to master and subdue it, or to subdue and master himself. "Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music matched with him!" How much longer this state of affairs might have lasted we know not, had it not everywhere been broken... | |
| Levi Gilbert - Immortality - 1903 - 244 pages
...desert dust, Or sealed within the iron hills? "No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons in the prime, ' That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music matched with him. "O life, as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless I What hope of answer or redress?... | |
| Frank Ballard - Monism - 1906 - 632 pages
...purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who loved, who suffered countless ills, Who battled...in their slime Were mellow music matched with him.' VI HUMAN IMMORTALITY A WHOLE chapter is devoted by Professor Haeckel, as also by his English champion,... | |
| English periodicals - 1903 - 638 pages
...this man were indeed lower than the plants, not to say the angels. But for this, The dragons in their prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music matched with him. So, in our survey, we move from chemistry to character— -from inorganic to organic — from mere... | |
| Sir Robert Laird Borden - Imperial federation - 1917 - 198 pages
...;of the brute creation. Indeed, one should then say that man was made a little lower than the brutes. No more ? A monster, then, a dream, A discord. Dragons...in their slime, Were mellow music matched with him. Such ideals are not helpful to humanity, and the sooner they are dispelled and dismissed the better... | |
| Thomas F. Hall - Arctic regions - 1917 - 600 pages
...whether he be Saint or Sinner, and justice is blind and pitiless as gravitation. " "Monsters in their prime That tare each other in their slime Were mellow music matched with this." A juggler could hardly be more dexterous in obtaining the figure- "62" than has been this eminent... | |
| John Walker Powell - 1918 - 258 pages
...him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked...in their slime, Were mellow music matched with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! — (Tennyson, "In Memoriam.") It is the fashion just now to call... | |
| Alfred Wilhelm Martin - Materialism - 1918 - 182 pages
...purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who loved, who suffered countless ills, Who battled...in their slime, Were mellow music matched with him. The poet's point is that no man would create such a world, no human being would be guilty of evolving... | |
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