| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. 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... | |
| 1857 - 818 pages
...Future, and proclaims as his creed, that he " — Doubts not through the ages one mcreasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns/' All through his earlier poems we have felt an undertone of sympathy with Humanity ; but here he comes... | |
| 1857 - 398 pages
...future, and proclaims as his creed, that he ••Doubts not through the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." All through his earlier poems we have felt an undertone of sympathy with Humanity ; but here he comes... | |
| 1911 - 994 pages
...and understand, would hesitate to say, — Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Beneath the fashionable criticisms of the church, this other strange assumption lies, that the church's... | |
| William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the sum.** Disappointed in love, and sickened in hope of civilized life, the speaker dreams, for a moment,... | |
| 1914 - 1066 pages
...is not making a failure, then the ages as they pass are coming into a larger knowledge of his truth, and "The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." And if this is so, then the present age is the one in which his will is most clearly revealed. Surely... | |
| 1858 - 784 pages
...design; in the faith of which the creature of a day can say with confidence, even of things human— " Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose...thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. " 1868.] THE SEAMAN a HOME. WIDE let the venturous sea-bird roam, A speck on ocean's bosom cast ; Touch... | |
| 1863 - 448 pages
...Roman Empires, and French Revolutions, — " Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." While we cling to a faith in progress, let our faith be a reverent faith, ascribing the glory where... | |
| 1858 - 860 pages
...design; in the faith of which the creature of a day can say with confidence, even of things human — " Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the tnoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.'1 1858.] TBK SEAMAN'S HOME. WIDE let... | |
| 1859 - 598 pages
...Mr. Tennyson in ' Locksley Hall :' — • ' Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.' The substitution of law for force has indeed altered the relations of the strong and the weak ; the... | |
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