| William Howitt - 1847 - 566 pages
...and winks behind a slowly dying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose run», And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." Disappointed in love, and sickened in hope of civilized life, the speaker dreams, for a moment, of... | |
| 1847 - 798 pages
...For," as Tennyson sweetly and wisely sings, " For I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the sun." And precisely the line of conduct that brought into acceptance truths now universally admitted,... | |
| 432 pages
...whether of joy or sorrow, for the improvement of others. ASSOCIATIONS OF FRENCH WORKMEN. " I douht not thro* the ages one increasing purpose runs, And...men are widened with the process of the suns."— TENNTSON. THE idea of Association has long heen working in the mind of the French nation. Any one who... | |
| 1850 - 652 pages
...broadening civilisation. Such are mankind to those who " doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." But to the Communist man is a blind barbarian, who must be led, housed, fed, and clothed, and driven... | |
| 1850 - 528 pages
...but earnest of the things that they ahull do: Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the sans. TESSYSOS. CHAP.XVIL WHEN sickness and death threatened the loyal founders of Charlestown with... | |
| 1850 - 600 pages
...common staple of the times to come. We have faith that " Ever through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the euns." From the Metropolitan. MY CHILDHOOD'S THOUGHT. THREE fields beyond our dwelling-place, a limpid... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 pages
...that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers,... | |
| 1851 - 184 pages
...but earnest Of the things that they shall do. I doubt not that thro' the ages Some increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened With the process of the suns. TENNYSON. THE AMERICANS— THEIR MEANS OF TRANSIT— TAXATION IN CANADA ANNEXATIONIST ARGUMENTS TH"E... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pages
...that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers,... | |
| 1851 - 524 pages
...instinct which prompted the Poet when he wrote : " For I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the Runs." In the great circle of existence in which we live and move, nature with her boundaries blends... | |
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