 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 lehte
...meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, I falter wncrc I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-steirs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather... | |
 | John Venn - 1866 - 412 lehte
...APPLICATION TO MORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. JOHN VENN, MA «. FELLOW OP OONVILLB AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBKIDGK. " so careful of the type she seems so careless of the single life." jlonDon anD MACMILLAN AND CO. 1866 PRINTED BY 0. J. CLAY, MA AT THE UNIVEIHITY PKESS. PEEFAC E. ANY... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1866 - 852 lehte
...pleasure iuto a staggering chase, that this passage, every word of which is vital, becomes real : " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of caret Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness unto God, I stretch lame hands... | |
 | Laura Preston - 1867 - 454 lehte
...slave, trying in vain to silence doubts which had never troubled their minds before. CHAPTER XXIX. " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God; I stretch Inme bunds of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1867 - 506 lehte
...evolution of mankind she sacrifices with like lavish profusion countless thousands of individual lives. " So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life." It behoves us not to let these failures, these abortive minds, pass away without learning the lesson... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 lehte
...instance, is one mood : — Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature 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 and quarried stone She cries, " A thousand... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1896 - 320 lehte
...dominant fact in all life from the beginning, that the individual must suffer for the common good. " So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life." Through the long upward march of the race, it has ruthlessly trampled the individual under foot, and... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 lehte
...brings but one to bear." Considering this, and the secret meaning that might seem to lie under it, " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling, with my...cares, Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff,... | |
 | 1868 - 1078 lehte
...Bible to show that we must all of us, in our solitary thinking, arrive at last where we shall say : — I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and... | |
 | 1868 - 518 lehte
...anticipated SI. de Broglie. See the well-known linea of ' In Memoriam,' where the poet says of Nature: ' So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life." In the next page, however, the Laureate questions the alleged carefulness of Nature even for the type.... | |
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Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life... 
