 Time ; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed: When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see ; Saw the Vision "of the world, and all the wonder that would be...  The North British Review - Page 341848Full view - About this book
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...absence, returns to the scene of his early education and hapless love, where of yore he " Wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long remit of tune." A feeling, cognate with, and yet more imperious than those his high aspirations, springs... | |
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 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
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 | 1843 - 418 pages
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 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 pages
...absence, returns to the scene of his early education and hapless love, where of yore he " Wandered, nourishing a youth sublime "With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of time." A feeling, cognate with, and yet more imperious than those his high aspirations, springs up in his... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
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 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
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 | George Henry Lewes - 1845 - 258 pages
...? Had he not from boyhood upwards been familiar with the sea ? " There about the beach he wandered nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of time." When gazing abroad upon the blue expanse, hearing " the mighty waters rolling evermore," and seeing the... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pages
...an oath, and keep it, with an equal mind — ax X 8, or ax X 8 —. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long results of Time ; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth...the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed : When I dipp'd into the future far... | |
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