| William Berryman Scott - 1897 - 622 oldal
...higher plane and make it worthy of its opportunities and of the age-long preparation for its coming. "The solid earth whereon we tread " In tracts of fluent...of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man; " Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher... | |
| 1897 - 588 oldal
...* In a letter from the present Master of Balliol to me. And in "In Memoriam " he had written thus : They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts...forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms. Till at (he last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime The herald of a higher race, In... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 190 oldal
...an old-world mammoth bulk'd in ice." V., 142. Compare also the following from In Memoriam, CXVIII. : In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random...of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 388 oldal
...In a letter from the present Master of Balliol to me. And in " In Memoriam " he had written thus : They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts...prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; In " Maud " he spoke of the making of man : As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 924 oldal
...and lime; But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts...forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the hist arose the man; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher race, And of... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 916 oldal
...and lime; But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For e»er nobler ends. rash of the charges,1 The wielding of weapons —...play that they play'd with The children of Edward. storuis, Till at the last arose the man; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 144 oldal
...and lime; But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts...of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man; Who throve and branch' d from clime to The herald of a higher race, [clime, And of himself in higher... | |
| 1900 - 600 oldal
...order than those we have been dealing with. We know that in the far-off times before life appeared, " The solid Earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms." Let us look back at that part of the earth's history, and see whether the long periods which we have... | |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 oldal
...and lime ; But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts...prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man — Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher... | |
| John Murray Moore - 1901 - 162 oldal
...two quotations only, out of a large number I have noted down. The first is from " In Memoriam": — The solid earth whereon we tread, In tracts of fluent heat began And grew to seeming random forms. The seeming prey of cyclic storms. Till at the last arose the man There rolls... | |
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