| William Gilpin - 1890 - 402 pages
...turned backward, so we say with Tennyson: " Not iu vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro" the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day." Undoubtedly the scheme of independence... | |
| Lafayette College (Easton, Northampton County, Pa.) - 1891 - 52 pages
...immortal being ; not man as an intellectual or commercial machine. Nature's methods culminate in man, " Man her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes." But man should not turn back to nature, but press on to God, or at least "rise thro' nature up to nature's... | |
| Euripides - 1891 - 216 pages
...stanza is printed in two lines : — ' Not in vain the distance beacons. || Forward, forward let us range : Let the great world spin forever || down the ringing grooves of change." The only difference is that the scope of the verse seems greater when its composite character is not... | |
| Sarah Neal Harris - 1891 - 206 pages
...moving toward the stillness of his rest. Not in vain the distance beckons. 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 day : Better fifty years of Europe than... | |
| 1891 - 874 pages
...fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Xot in vain the distance beckons; forward, forward lot us range ; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change." It sails onward, in the stream of God's wise and loving providence, toward the great ocean of a pacific... | |
| 1891 - 626 pages
...years of Europe than a cycle of Cathav." " Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change." And we will believe in this Easter hope ; and, just because the hope cannot be crushed out, the achievement... | |
| 1892 - 836 pages
...in the ringing accents of the enthusiast ; Not in vain the distant beacons ; forward, forward let us range ; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. For to him change means advancement. The possibilities of the future, though dim, loom up giant-like,... | |
| Henry Austin Adams - 1893 - 210 pages
...The fulness of the future dawns on us. "Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range ; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change, For we doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the life of man is widened with the... | |
| James Richard Joy - 1893 - 338 pages
...future with high hope, with firm faith. " 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 day: Better fifty years of Europe than... | |
| JAMES RICHARD JOY, M. A - 1893 - 362 pages
...future with high hope, with firm faith. " 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 day: Better fifty years of Europe than... | |
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