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. In Memoriam - Page 86by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Addington Symonds - 1863 - 70 pages
...in the worlds under his survey Nature was scarcely more conservative of species than of individuals. So careful of the type ! but no, From scarped cliff...types are gone ! I care for nothing ; all shall go." And how has man been wasted ! I will not here say how he has been wasted by himself, — by his own... | |
| Henry Woodward - 1878 - 638 pages
...out at the close of that short geological period, and never re-appear. " So careful of the type t" but no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone She...types are gone, I care for nothing, all shall go." Tennyson's In lletnoriam. This fact, which is observable in many other groups of organisms, notably... | |
| 1864 - 742 pages
...our convenience. Nature, as careless of the type as of the individual, keeps her inexorable course. " a thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, all shall go. " This is her language, and it is for us to seize and record her phases before they vanish. The Maori... | |
| David Masson - 1865 - 432 pages
...the In Memoriam but must have noted this noble elegy, and its full philosophical significance : — ' So careful of the type ? ' But no. From scarped cliff...thine appeal to me : I bring to life, I bring to death : The spirit does but mean the breath : I know no more.' And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1865 - 530 pages
...Nature lends such evil dreams, So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ? ' So careful of the type ! ' but no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone, She eries, ' A thousand types are gone; I care for nothing; all shall go : Thou makest thine appeal to... | |
| Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 pages
...developments of geological science. And then that passage, too, is a wonderful one which begins : — " So careful of the type ? " but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone, &c. It would be the easiest thing in the world to give scores of pieces of sound theology embedded,... | |
| Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 pages
...developments of geological science. And then that passage, too, is a wonderful one which begins :— " So careful of the type ? " but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone, &c. It would be the easiest thing in the world to give scores of pieces of sound theology embedded,... | |
| David Masson - 1866 - 334 pages
...the In Memoriam but must have noted this noble elegy, and its full philosophical significance : — 4 So careful of the type ? ' But no. From scarped cliff...thousand types are gone : I care for nothing, all shah1 go. 1 Thou makest thine appeal to me : I "bring to life, I bring to death : The spirit does hut... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 pages
...the type ? " but no. From scarped clilF and quarried stone She cries, " A thousand types are gone: J care for nothing, all shall go. " Thou makest thine appeal to me : I bring to life, I bnng to death : The spirit does but mean the breath : I know no more." And he, shall he, Man, her last... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...sends such evil dreams ? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life. . . . " So careful of the type ? " but no. From scarped cliff...thine appeal to me : I bring to life, I bring to death : The spirit dees but mean the breath : I know no more." And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who... | |
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