 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soult Are God and Nature, then, at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the tv|>e she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. Ibid. liii. So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life. Rid. liv. The great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. Ibid. liv. Who battled... | |
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1875 - 236 pages
...very beautiful language the poet Tennyson, after proposing the same riddle, replies to it thus :— " Are God and Nature then at strife That Nature lends such evil dreams 1 So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ' So careful of the type' 1 but... | |
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1875 - 236 pages
...functionally effete. Why should not the universe bury its dead out of sight ? CHAPTER V. DEVELOPMENT. " Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil drcama ? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; " ' So careful of the type... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 408 pages
...pari passu, the qualities of the living creatures which subsist under these varying conditions — ' So careful of the type ? ' but no, From scarped cliff and quarried Btone She cries ' a thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, all shall go.' Hitherto we have confined... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1876 - 396 pages
...our time may, perhaps, seem one day as perplexing as we now find those of the geological eras.' la the past, then, as in the present, this Earth was...then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams t So careful of the type she seems. So careless of the single life. ' So careful of the type ? ' but... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1887 - 540 pages
...spectacle of all the suffering this implies makes the poetical interpreter of modern thought exclaim — ' Are God and Nature, then, at strife, That Nature lends...the type, she seems So careless of the single life ; ' and others seem unable to look ' behind the veil ' to ' the hands That reach through nature moulding... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likeat God within the soul ? Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul ? Are God and Nature, then, at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She... | |
 | John Venn - 1876 - 526 pages
...one liable to lead to much confusion. The lines which have been prefixed as a motto to this work, " So careful of the type she seems, so careless of the single life," are soon after corrected by the assertion that the type itself, if we regard it for a long time, changes,... | |
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