 | 1889 - 1028 halaman
...is in no sense a rose-water optimist. But he is in the truest sense a meliorist. He doubts not that Through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And...thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. He believes that good Will be the final goal of ill. He rests his faith upon the uplifting power of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 736 halaman
...from the king of birds to the king of beasts, we are at once reminded of that tremendous simile : — Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion creeping nigher,...one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. And it is interesting to note that, long after ' Locksley Hall ' was written, in ' Tiresias ' the Demos... | |
 | Gerald Parsons, James Richard Moore - 1988 - 562 halaman
...great year of Providence, and a large acquaintance with that revaluation of history which shows how Through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened by the process of the suns. The majority of Progressionists and Conservatives, the pioneers of the... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 halaman
...shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue — 10 Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from...one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. 11 . . .Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. [Prophetic — which excuses the ghastly... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 halaman
...fretful realm in awe. And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law. (1. 127-130) 77 There was an Old Man who supposed, That the street...(1. 1 —2) NA; NAEL-2; NOBW; NoP Then- was an ol (1. 137-138) 79 Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward let us range, Let the great world spin for... | |
 | David Bebbington - 1993 - 292 halaman
...quoted another of Tennyson's compositions, Locksley Mali, as an affirmation of belief in providence: Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose...thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. The poet's periodic expressions of "honest doubt" Gladstone chose to ignore. As early as 1844, he urged... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 halaman
...me dry, Left me with the palsied heart, and left me with the jaundiced eye; Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint: Science...winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widen 'd with the process of... | |
 | 370 halaman
...further that advancement, especially in so far as their own characters are concerned. Working man — " Doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs ; And the thoughts of men are widened by the process of the suns." (To be continued.) SOCIAL ELEVATION. (To the Editor of the " Working Man.")... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 halaman
...presents a vision of social unrest and disturbance which was later to influence WH Auden in the 1930s: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slow-dying fire. In such poems he continues a Romantic tradition of social prophecy. Tennyson's emotion... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 halaman
...'Locksley Hall' Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point. 11531 'Locksley Hali ore at Corunna' We buried him darkly at dead of night,...bayonets turning. 12719 'The Burial of Sir John Moore 11532 'Locksley Hall' Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. 11533 'Locksley Hall' I will take some savage... | |
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Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. 
