 | 1863 - 448 pages
...Roman Empires, and French Revolutions, — " Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." While we cling to a faith in progress, let our faith be a reverent faith, ascribing the glory where... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pages
...say with confidence, even of things human— " Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. " 1868.] THE SEAMAN a HOME. WIDE let the venturous sea-bird roam, A speck on ocean's bosom cast ; Touch... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1858 - 516 pages
...unprofitable, and are belying, so far as you are concerned, the practical as well as poetical truth, that the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Rejecting, he says, the metaphysical dogma of free will, and the theological dogma of predestined events,... | |
 | WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH - 1858 - 516 pages
...unprofitable, and are belying, so far as you are concerned, the practical as well as poetical truth, that the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Rejecting, he says, the metaphysical dogma .of free will, and the theological dogma of predestined... | |
 | 1859 - 598 pages
...Mr. Tennyson in ' Locksley Hall :' — • ' Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.' The substitution of law for force has indeed altered the relations of the strong and the weak ; the... | |
 | 1860 - 880 pages
...soulstirring power. Such, for instance, as,— " Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." • » * • » Again : — " Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast, Full... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 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, Though the deep heart of existence... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 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, Though the deep heart of existence... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1773 - 674 pages
...Locksley Hall," and subscribe to its truth,— Yet, I doubt not, through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Yet, at a time like the present, when the pace of life is so killing, and there appears no sign of... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...Leaving the poor no remedy but tears. COWPEE. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Humanity, toiling in bondage, TENNYSON. From most immemorial time, Hath bowed to the call of error.... | |
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Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. 
