 THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that ' this is I : ' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of ' I,' and ' me,' And finds ' I am not what I see, And other...  In Memoriam - Page 67by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1875 - 480 pages
...conscious distinction between himself and his surroundings he could not advance a single step." * " The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender...not what I see, And other than the things I touch." t • See Furrar. Chapters on Language, p. 62. f In Uemuriam, sec. 44. The perception of the difference... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...round, resolve the doubt, My guardian angel will speak out In that high place, and tell thee all. XLIV. THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is pressed Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I " : But as he grows he... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...dreamy touch should fall, 0 turn thee round, resolve the doubt, My guardian angel will speak out XLIT. THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender...things I touch :' So rounds he to a separate mind Prom whence clear memory may begin, As thro' the frame that binds him in His isolation grows defined*... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...round, resolve the doubt, My guardian angel will speak out In that high place, and tell thee all. XLIV. THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is pressed Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I : " But as he grows he... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...possibility as this, — The baby new to earth and >ky, What time his tender palm is pressed Againbt the circle of the breast, Has never thought that "...And finds " I am not what I see, And other than the thing I touch :" So moulds he to a separate mind From whence clear memory may begin, As through the... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1860 - 292 pages
...-nit ifuxTJs olittvos irpbs rb \oyl{«r8<u SfApcmy <rw/tariKov upy&vov.—Ennead, T. 1, ch. 10. Bat as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of...not what I see, And other than the things I touch.' " * And this gives us at once the true explanation of the fact, that it is some time before a child... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...thee round, resolve the doubt, My guardian angel will speak out In that high place, and tell thee all. THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is pressed Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I : " But as he grows he... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...round, resolve the doubt, My guardian angel will speak out In that high place, and tell thee all. XLIV. THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is pressed Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I : " But as he grows he... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...thee round, resolve the doubt, My guardian angel will speak out In that high place, and tell thee all. THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is pressed Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I : " But as he grows he... | |
 | 1863 - 478 pages
...bears witness to the very beginning of the process of separation between these in the human mind. " The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is pressed Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that ' this is I ' ; " But as he grows... | |
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