 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 921900 - 536 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 190 pages
...an old-world mammoth bulk'd in ice." V., 142. Compare also the following from In Memoriam, CXVIII. : 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 and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 388 pages
...letter from the present Master of Balliol to me. And in " In Memoriam " he had written thus : 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 ; In " Maud " he spoke of the making of man : As nine months go to the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 916 pages
...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For e»er nobler ends. They say, d-shoulder'd genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen...raiser of huge melons and pine, A patron of some storuis, Till at the last arose the man; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 144 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 The herald of a higher race,... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 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... | |
 | John Murray Moore - 1901 - 162 pages
...two quotations only, out of a large number I have noted down. The first is from " In Memoriam": — 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 There rolls... | |
 | William Digby - 1902 - 452 pages
...Recorded a Completion, and not a Destruction, of existing Scientific Research and Observation. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms. The seeming prey of cyclic storms. —TENNYSON. THE main thesis of this work is not wholly novel. No new truth in science ever springs,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 358 pages
...trust that those we call the dead 5 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, 10 The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1903 - 644 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, 10 The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from... | |
 | 1905 - 272 pages
...and all in all, — I should know what God and man is." Or in lines such as the following : 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 ; Or in these : " There rolls the deep where grew the tree. О earth... | |
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