 | William Clark Gordon - 1906 - 278 lehte
...science, Tennyson was prepared to accept it. It came into his poetry because it was a part of himself. " So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man," 85 and so great progress has already been made that it inspires the hope that in the ages to come he... | |
 | William Emory Smyser - 1906 - 222 lehte
...time To learn its limbs : there is a hand that guides. In "Maud" the young cynic is made to speak of the making of man — "He now is first: but is he the last ?" And finally in one of his latest poems, "The Dawn," published in the last volume he gave the world... | |
 | Henry Barclay Swete - 1906 - 624 lehte
...not hurry (be it reverently said). A thousand years of moral evolution are with Him as one day : " So many a million of ages have gone to the making of The other feature of God's revelation is that He reveals Himself, before He reveals the whole moral... | |
 | William Clark Gordon - 1906 - 274 lehte
...that still garden of the souls In many a figured leaf enrolls The total world since life began." " Many a million of ages have gone to the making of man;" 30 and these ages of making indicate the value of the product. Edgar, in " The Promise of May," 31... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 608 lehte
...flame, and his river billowing ran, And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for...is first, but is he the last ? is he not too base ? 7 The man of science himself is fonder of glory, and vain, An eye well-practised in nature, a spirit... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 606 lehte
...Evolution the lower is to be regarded as a means to the higher." In Maud he spoke of the making of man : As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for...making of man : He now is first, but is he the last ? The answer he would give to this query was : " No, mankind is as yet on one of the lowest rungs of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 610 lehte
...Evolution the lower is to be regarded as a means to the higher." In Maud he spoke of the making of man : As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for...making of man : He now is first, but is he the last? The answer he would give to this query was : " No, mankind is as yet on one of the lowest rungs of... | |
 | 1910 - 532 lehte
...flame, and his river billowing ran, And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for...is first, but is he the last? is he not too base? 7 The man of science himself is fonder of glory, and vain, An eye well-practised in nature, a spirit... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1910 - 1082 lehte
...flame, and the river billowing ran, And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for...is first, but is he the last ? is he not too base ? " The state of society has left its mark too, and the poet is awake to the evils which stirred the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer, Winifred Lucas Lockyer - 1910 - 244 lehte
...million summers away ? The Dawn, p. 890. And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for...is first, but is he the last ? is he not too base ? Maud, p. 290. Vol. IV., p. 170. Where all that was to be, in all that was, Whirl'd for a million... | |
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A monstrous eft was of old the Lord and Master of Earth, For him did his high sun flame, and his river billowing ran, And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many... 
