| 1850 - 600 pages
...common staple of the times to come. We have faith that " Ever through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the euns." From the Metropolitan. MY CHILDHOOD'S THOUGHT. THREE fields beyond our dwelling-place, a limpid... | |
| 1850 - 744 pages
...of the just man, which ehineth more and more unto the perfect day. And why should it not be so ? " The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," and in widened thought there is a possibility, at least, for increase of wisdom. The eternal verities... | |
| 1851 - 184 pages
...but earnest Of the things that they shall do. I doubt not that thro' the ages Some increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened With the process of the suns. TENNYSON. THE AMERICANS— THEIR MEANS OF TRANSIT— TAXATION IN CANADA ANNEXATIONIST ARGUMENTS TH"E... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pages
...that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 pages
...that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers,... | |
| 1851 - 524 pages
...instinct which prompted the Poet when he wrote : " For I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the Runs." In the great circle of existence in which we live and move, nature with her boundaries blends... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1852 - 274 pages
...moves in the advancing wheels of society ; — not only that " through the ages an increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ;" but that the " purpose" is that of an intelligent and conscious being, and that the " process" is... | |
| 1852 - 892 pages
...the darkness, Scott unknown, Byron had "not * " Yet I doubt not thro' the ages an increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." Tennyson. penned his inspiration," steam had not baffled sea and wind, and re-mapped the land, the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. "What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers,... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...tree, But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be. Shakspere. Ever through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Tennyson. And though these scenes may seem to careless eyes Irregular, and rough, and unconverted,... | |
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