 For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; I leard...  Poems - Page 103by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Martin - 1865 - 240 pages
...elevating millions of human beings, and is pointing to the future as well as speaking of the past : — " Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something...purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. " What would this " vision of the world " of commerce be without banks and bankers ? — Truly says... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1865 - 662 pages
...evidently borrowed their ideas of balloons from Tennyson's somewhat vague prophecy, where he says : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilot» of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard (he heavens fill with shouting... | |
 | 1867 - 520 pages
...each other. Again, when our greatest living poet . " dips into the future," what does he t see ? " The heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...purple. twilight, dropping down with costly bales." \Vhy, it might be the vision of a young general merchant. I doubt whether anything similar could be... | |
 | 1869 - 730 pages
...what is past, we may catch some revelation" of the brightness and glory of that which is to come. " For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, arcrosies of macric sails, OO Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales." But,... | |
 | Acrostics - 1871 - 312 pages
...dreams he sees." 6. " That which combined us was most great, and let not A leaner action rend us." 7. " Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...purple twilight dropping down with costly bales." 8. ; " Fly, Like spirits of the spot, as 'twere for fame, For still they soared unutterably high."... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - 1918 - 638 pages
...eyes could see, Saw the vision of the world and all the wonders that would be, Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of...dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens filled with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew, From the nation's airy navies, grappling in the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1874 - 706 pages
...of the barbarians in exchange for their silks and velvets. As they stood upon the shore seeing the "Argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales," they calculated their profits and bargains in pieces of money that bore the same mark as our symbol... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...the future, far as tinman eye could see, Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic Balls, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens flll with shouting, and there raiu'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling ¡n the central... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; I heaveus fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 552 pages
...JA'gnglOR I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, KJggjJI Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that ~ ~ would be ; Saw the heavens...the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; "THE WONDER THAT WILL BE." H g 3 0 z Q g O Id a o H M til H £ Saw the heavens fill with shouting,... | |
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