 Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...  In Memoriam - Page 78by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...I ? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. The wish, that of the living whole No life may fail...considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And tinding that of lifty seeds She often brings but one lo bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling... | |
 | 1871 - 808 pages
...all ; " and in " The Two Voices " there are the same turns of thought as in No. 54, about nature : " So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life." But in these quasi sonnets Mr. Tennyson's v quietism found its most natural outlet. The dreaminess... | |
 | 1901 - 872 pages
...are reconciled. X. I congratulate you on your conviction— on having no pestilent demand to meetAre God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? (By the way, I wonder how many readers of "In Memoriam" have chafed at the almost random touch allotted... | |
 | 1883 - 500 pages
...Stanley. He could not believe him to be altogether in earnest. CHAPTER III. SUMMUM JUS, SliMMA INJUBIA. " So careful of the type she seems So careless of the single life." TENNYSON. Is it certain that competitive examination is the surest test of relative efficiency ? So... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...as a protest and protection against the heartless mockery of any " remerging in the general Soul." " The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...careless of the single life ; That I, considering every where Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one... | |
 | Joseph Antisell Allen - 1854 - 168 pages
...truth. High as heaven, broad-based, It defies the waste Of old Time's all-devouring tooth. PART III. The wish, that of the living whole No life may fail...then at strife, That nature lends such evil dreams ? — IN All laws seem to tend To good as their end : All contrivance — the eye, solar sphere, Brain,... | |
 | 1854 - 710 pages
...No life n>ay fail beyond the grave; Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soulf Are God and Nature, then, at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreamaî So careful of the type she seems, ï-'o careless of the single life ; That I considering everywhere... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 pages
...enough to show how he is pursuing the idea through a suggestion derived from geological discovery. " The wish, that of the living whole No life may fail...the type she seems, So careless of the single life : cc " That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds... | |
 | 1857 - 592 pages
...up in the rock for ever ?" Let us hear on this subject the words of Tennyson, which Miller quotes : "Are God and nature, then, at strife, That nature...the type she seems, So careless of the single life ? ' So careful of the type !' But no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, ' A thousand... | |
 | 1857 - 594 pages
...admirably portrayed than in the works of perhaps the most thoughtful and suggestive of living poets : — " Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; ' So careful of the type i' but no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone, She cries, ' A thousand... | |
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