| 1843 - 418 pages
...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains 'Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun...should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon 1 Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the peoples spin for ever down... | |
| 1849 - 660 pages
...things :' acknowledges that ' meet is it changes should control our being, lest we rot in ease:' holds it 'better men should perish one by one, than that...should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon :' and kindling with enthusiasm cries, ' Forward, forward let us range : let the nations spin forever... | |
| 1893 - 840 pages
...comparatively young man that Tennyson read the calm method of nature and time in emancipating man : — I that rather held it better men should perish one...should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon 1 Not iu vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 548 pages
...so early; of all things, I should tike to have been born in the last age of the world, to have been the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of Time ! Towards midnight we proceeded on our way. The passengers began to retire to rest. The ladies' cabin... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...foreheads, Tacant of our glorious trains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ! I the heir of all tbe ages, in the foremost files of time— I that rather held it better men should perish one by one,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun...that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Aijalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range ; Let the peoples spin for... | |
| 1846 - 592 pages
...resting-place of the leader in the vanguard of science, the earliest herald of each successive triumph, ' The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time.' Fair, candid, and open to conviction in every minor detail, he refuses to admit those ideas alone,... | |
| William Howitt - 1847 - 566 pages
...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the hetr of all the agct, in the forcmott filet of time— I that rather held it better men should perish... | |
| Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1849 - 196 pages
...rarely shown the graceful homage of respect from youth to age ; it cannot be shown sincerely by one " The heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of Time," who feels he is there, and holds his privilege to be closely yoked with duty. Pity and forbearance... | |
| Camilla Crosland - 1849 - 188 pages
...rarely shown the graceful homage of respect from youth to age ; it cannot be shown sincerely by one " The heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of Time," who feels he is there, and holds his privilege to be closely yoked with duty. Pity and forbearance... | |
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