 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vaiu the distance heacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world...ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the glohe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. TENNYSON.... | |
 | 1856 - 586 pages
...ever reaping something new ; That which they have done hut earnest of the things that they shall do. Not in vain the distance beacons : forward, forward,...Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing groves of change." However much the material aspect of the world might alter, the emotions of the heart... | |
 | 1856 - 600 pages
...CONFIRM THE MOSAIC ACCOUNT OF CREATION? AFFIBMATIYE ABTICLE. — IV. " Not in vain the distance bechons, Forward, forward let us range; Let the great world spin for ever Down the ringing groves of change." IT is incontestable, that the Bible is a revelation of God's moral attribntes, and... | |
 | William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand and gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon. Not In vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a... | |
 | 1864 - 492 pages
...human progress both lengthened and widened. In the spirit of the great poet of our own day we lay,— " Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. " Yet amid all changes may we attain to the Changeless — having Him and His as ours. May Truth's... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward...younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Mother Age (for mine I knew not) help me as when life begun : Rift the hills, and... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pages
...Lord of Burleigh and Locksley Hall are trochaic. Listen to the majestic roll of these two stanzas : Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger... | |
 | Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 310 pages
...Thou ruthless, ruthless sea. CHAPTER VI. " Eheu ! fugaces, Posthume, Posthume, Labuntur anni." HOE. " Not in vain the distance beacons, Forward, forward,...spin for ever Down the ringing grooves of change." TENNYSON. YEARS continued to roll on, making the usual inevitable changes. The boyhood at the rectory... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pages
...reaping something new,' That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do." ***** "Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change; Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay." Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into... | |
 | 1860 - 880 pages
...forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change ; Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay." Despite the wild passion of this poem, we feel there is deepest, richest, healthiest... | |
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Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. 
