 O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape...  Science - Page 121edited by - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Robert McCheyne Edgar - 1874 - 390 pages
...world of prim proprieties and sense-perceptions. Yet is not deeper scientific wisdom demonstrating " The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." * And the deeper wisdom of the Cross is showing us the transient, misty character of the world that... | |
 | Henry Francis Blanford - 1874 - 192 pages
...changes hast thou seen ! There, where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands Like clouds they shape themselves and go." Bu our present business is not only with the broad fact that these things are changing and have always... | |
 | F. Peel - 1874 - 144 pages
...dog. FIGURES OF SPEECH. 1. A Simile (L. timilis, like) is a comparison founded on resemblance ; eg "They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds, they shape themselves and go." Tennyson. " His words ' fell soft like snow upon the ground.' " Home): Comparisons should be apt ;... | |
 | 1875 - 360 pages
...changes hast them seen ! There. where the lung street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. The Emerald Mines of Muzo. — Within four days' journey from Bogata, a French company has been enjoying... | |
 | James Henry Bennet - 1875 - 744 pages
...where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. " The hills are shadows, aud they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ;...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves, and go." TENNYSON, In Alcmeriam, cxxii. Tar, geological features of the country are very interesting, and much... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From formtoform, and no thing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 588 pages
...btillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stände : They melt like mist, the solid lands. Like clouds they shape themselves and go. [А. В.] 1874.] General Monthly Meeting. 289 GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, Monday, April 6, 1874. WARRKN... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1910 - 544 pages
...the features altered : they softened, they ran as water, they thinned, they dispersed as a mist : ' The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.' Face to face with this flux, this inconstancy of things, it was not possible to find rest in the inertia... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars,hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; -For tho' my lips may breathe... | |
 | James Tunstall - 1876 - 600 pages
...the valley, giving us some idea of the giant scale on which Nature performs the excavator's work : " The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." TENNYSON. Archaeologists, who are interested in the times, which geologists deem modern, will find... | |
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