 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
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 316 pages
...Memoriam," " Maud," and in others of his poems. Here is a passage from "In Memoriam :" — "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 Burroughs - 1904 - 310 pages
...Memoriam," " Maud," and in others of his poems. Here is a passage from "In Memoriam : " — "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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904 - 328 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1905 - 280 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, And seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; iv Who throve and branch'd from... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1906 - 1042 pages
...experiments described in this paper tend to prove that not only ' The solid enrth on which we stand, In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms," but that, even now, internal tracts which are in the ordinary sense solid, 'flow From form to form... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1906 - 212 pages
...Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread 3. 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 ; 4. Who throve and branch 'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher... | |
 | Henry Richardson Linville, Henry Augustus Kelly - 1906 - 492 pages
...contributions of food from human visitors. CHAPTER XXXI THE ALLIES OF THE SQUIRREL: MAMMALIA 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. TENNYSON,... | |
 | Alexander Mackie - 1906 - 156 pages
...poet, and Tennyson has mastered it in all its significance as an indirect proof of Evolution. 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. The same subject... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1906 - 648 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, Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 608 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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