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" They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man... "
Essays in Astronomy - Page 92
1900 - 536 pages
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The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch' d from clime to clime, The herald of a higher...
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Our Poetical Favorites, Second Series: A Selection from the Best ..., Volume 2

1876 - 564 pages
...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man — Who throve...
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Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ...

Richard Anthony Proctor - 1876 - 396 pages
...time-intervals, but the series has no limit that we know of, while it possesses terms, recognisable by us, of higher order than those we have been dealing with....contemplated may not be matched and more than matched by the aaons which preceded them. When we thus Contemplate all this work of Time The giant labouring in his...
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Tennyson's Complete Works: (Including Queen Mary)

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread in tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man • Who throve and branchM from clime to (clime, The herald of a higher...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 45

1898 - 554 pages
...however, satisfy the naturalists of the time. Now, in such a passage as In Memoriam cxviii. — 'They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man. Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die '...
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Life History of Our Planet

William Dickey Gunning - 1876 - 376 pages
... LIFE HISTORY OUR PLANET. OUR PLANET. BY WILLIAM D. GIINJSTING-. 14 They say The solid earth whereon we tread, In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man; Who throve...
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Birds and Poets: With Other Papers

John Burroughs - 1877 - 278 pages
..."Maud," and in others of his poems. Here is a passage from " In Memoriam " : — " They say, The sordid earth whereon we tread "In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man, " Who throve...
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The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher...
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The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

1879 - 524 pages
...Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread ln tracts of fluent heat began. And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyelic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from elime to elime, The herald...
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The new truth and the old faith, by a scientific layman

New truth - 1880 - 386 pages
...clings to it unfolds itself to fullest bloom, then slowly droops and dies. BOOK I. WHENCE? They say The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man. TENNTSON, In Hemoriam. THE NEW TRUTH AND THE OLD FAITH. CHAPTER I....
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