 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
 | Solomon Francis Gingerich - 1911 - 276 pages
...freedom and the scientific theory of orderly developement. In accordance with this idea the solid earth 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... | |
 | Florence Holbrook - 1911 - 152 pages
...MAMMOTH CAVE, MOUND, AND LAKE DWELLERS AND OTHER PRIMITIVE PEOPLE BY ' : ' : FLORENCE HOLBROOK 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 last arose the man. — TENNYSON DC... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1913 - 244 pages
...ideal. Tennyson's In Memoriam, published in 1850 but written earlier, contains this passage: 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 Browning's Paracelsus, written in 1834, there is a long and eloquent... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1913 - 1092 pages
...trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, cxv. fought for me : And seeing now thy words ar<? fair, methinks There rides no knight, not Till at the last arose the man; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 406 pages
...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 and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, so oft In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge...assaults Their surest signal — they will soon r Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher... | |
 | William North Rice - 1919 - 236 pages
...gradual degradation of the continents by the agencies of subaerial denudation. From the same poem, again: "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." Here we have, of course, the primitively molten or gaseous earth which... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1920 - 1090 pages
...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, And I shall know him when we meet : And we shall sit...the other's good : What vaster dream can hit the Till at the last arose the man; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher... | |
 | Mabel Dodge Holmes - 1921 - 202 pages
...theory found eloquent, though perhaps not convinced, expression in lines of vivid poetry: "They say, The solid earth whereon we tread "In tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at t he last arose the man ; "Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 pages
...trust that those we call the dead S 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 branched from... | |
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