| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pages
...slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen 'd with the process of the suns. What is that to him that reaps not harvest... | |
| William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...forward, let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better Jifty yean of Europe than d cycle of Catkay. Mother-Age ! (for mine I knew not,) help me as when life... | |
| John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 358 pages
...; Let the people spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day ; Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.' It is literally true that, taking a civilised industrious nation such as our own... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Mother-age (for mine I knew not) help me as when life begun : Rift the hills, and... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. TENNYSON. XXXVin. AROUSE THEE, SOUL ! " EVERY man has at times in his mind the ideal... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Mother-age, (for mine I knew not,) help me as when life begun : Rift the hills, and... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 300 pages
...forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Mother-age, (for mine I knew not,) help me as when life begun: Rift the hills, and... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 pages
...such as we make it will the time ever be : ' For we see that through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.' THE INCAS OF PERU. IN a former Paper, treating of the ancient monuments of America, allusion was made... | |
| Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - Christian life - 1851 - 350 pages
...forever Down the ringing grooves of change. For I doubt not through the ages One increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd With the process of the suns. Hen, our brothers, men, the workers, Ever reaping something new — That which they have done but earnest... | |
| John Lalor - Currency question - 1852 - 382 pages
...against itself is brought to desolation." — LUKU xi. 17. CHAPTER I. THEORIES OF SOCIAL PROGRESS. " Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose...of men are widen'd with the process of the suns." TENNYSON. Different Kinds of Progress. THE belief that society is in a state of progressive improvement... | |
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