| 1851 - 524 pages
...really the sublime of harmony. It was a true instinct which prompted the Poet when he wrote : " For I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the Runs." In the great circle of existence in which we live and move, nature with... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. "What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Knowledge... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...now, like fruits unripe, sticks on the tree, But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be. Shakspere. Ever through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Tennyson. And though these scenes may seem to careless eyes Irregular,... | |
| Haölé, George Washington Bates - 1854 - 506 pages
...misread all the lessons of history, and misapprehend the laws of human progress, which show " That ever through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." They exhibit a skepticism, ae blind as it is discouraging, in regard... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...preaching down a daughter's heart. But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Better fifty... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...who ignore or repudiate forks are in a minority; the cause of forks is the cause of progress : For we doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened ; and, as a corollary to that proposition, the use of forks is spreading with the process of the suns,... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 396 pages
...attempt it. in onler that he may learn how to keep within the limits of the Knowable." — GOETHB. " For I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose...thoughts of men are widened by the process of the Buns." Tl!UITXi». LIBRARY EDITION, MITCH ENLARGED AND THOROUGHLY REVISED. VOL. I. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON... | |
| 1911 - 994 pages
...find a man who, rising in our day with a mind able to see and understand, would hesitate to say, — Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Beneath the fashionable criticisms of the church, this other strange... | |
| 1857 - 398 pages
...tone, but with steady hand he unveils the future, and proclaims as his creed, that he ••Doubts not through the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." All through his earlier poems we have felt an undertone of sympathy... | |
| 1919 - 1066 pages
...age of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, there lived a certain poet who dreamed of the dawn and sang, — Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of women widen with the process of the suns. CONCERNING KITCHENS Many a man, I am sure,... | |
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