 | Mary Midgley - 2005 - 430 pages
...THE SERVICE OF KALI Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravin, shrieked against his creed . . . Are God and Nature then at strife That Nature lends...types are gone; I care for nothing; all shall go.' Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memo/Yarn, LV-LVI NATURE'S REDNESS AND THE ABUSE OF COMMON SPEECH We move... | |
 | Marvin N. Olasky, John Perry - 2005 - 376 pages
...secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear . . . "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliff...types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go" ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm... | |
 | John D. Rosenberg - 2005 - 304 pages
...the despairing poet, and to his troubled audience wracked by the assault of science upon their faith: 'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff...types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go.' (56.1-4) No other major English poem stands in a more central relation to its culture or to the life... | |
 | William David Shaw, Professor W David Shaw - 2005 - 316 pages
...Heraclitus, who utters 'solemn, unadorned, unlovely words' that sound and echo for 'a thousand years.' From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A...thousand types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go ...' In Memoriam, 56.2-4 As Tennyson becomes a scribe of the 'terrible Muses,' the new astronomy and... | |
 | David Grumett - 2005 - 332 pages
...preserves neither the single life nor that of the species.101 In the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson: 'From scarped cliff and quarried stone / She cries,...thousand types are gone: / I care for nothing, all shall go.'102 Tennyson here suggests that the extinction of previously existing plant and animal species... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 2005 - 344 pages
...the type she seems, So careless of the single life . . . So careful of the type? but no. From scaped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go." Given Nature "red in tooth and claw" — this famous phrase has its source here — nothing seems to... | |
 | Jeffrey Burton Russell - 2006 - 224 pages
...secret from the latest moon." 68 The purpose of the Divinity and the course of "Nature" seemed at odds: Are God and Nature then at strife That Nature lends...types are gone; I care for nothing; all shall go' Nature, red in tooth and claw O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless!... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 2006 - 286 pages
...theme even before the Origin was published. Famously, in his poem "In Memoriam," Alfred Tennyson asked: Are God and Nature then at strife. That Nature lends...types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go.' Tennyson found an answer in a Butler-like creative process leading on to higher types and thus justifying... | |
 | Arthur McCalla - 2006 - 254 pages
...hope.26 Worse, palaeontologists have shown that even species are not preserved from mass destruction: 'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff...types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go. The next thought, terrifying but inevitable, must be: do we humans too belong to this dismal scene... | |
 | James C. Livingston, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza - 456 pages
...but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod. . . . LVI So careful of the type? but no. From scorped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go." Tennyson's grimly pessimistic view of nature was due in large part to the fact that he looked at the... | |
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Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more. 
