 The wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul? Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless...  Poems: In Two Volumes - Seite 362von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1875 - 236 Seiten
...very beautiful language the poet Tennyson, after proposing the same riddle, replies to it thus :— " Are God and Nature then at strife That Nature lends such evil dreams 1 So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ' So careful of the type' 1 but... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 Seiten
...crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. Ibid. liii. So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life. Rid. liv. The great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. Ibid. liv. Who battled... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - 1875 - 236 Seiten
...functionally effete. Why should not the universe bury its dead out of sight ? CHAPTER V. DEVELOPMENT. " Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil drcama ? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; " ' So careful of the type... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1887 - 540 Seiten
...spectacle of all the suffering this implies makes the poetical interpreter of modern thought exclaim — ' Are God and Nature, then, at strife, That Nature lends...the type, she seems So careless of the single life ; ' and others seem unable to look ' behind the veil ' to ' the hands That reach through nature moulding... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 Seiten
...An infant crying in the night: Au tufaut crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. LV. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail...beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likeat God within the soul ? Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams?.... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1876 - 396 Seiten
...personification of nature is but a poetical idea, and does not present any real substantive truth),— Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams t So careful of the type she seems. So careless of the single life. ' So careful of the type ? ' but... | |
 | John Venn - 1876 - 526 Seiten
...one liable to lead to much confusion. The lines which have been prefixed as a motto to this work, " So careful of the type she seems, so careless of the single life," are soon after corrected by the assertion that the type itself, if we regard it for a long time, changes,... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1877 - 470 Seiten
...last culminating-point and archetype, man. Tennyson expresses this truth in the following lines : " The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...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 types... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1877 - 468 Seiten
...its last culminating-point and archetype, man. Tennyson expresses this truth in the following lines: "The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...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 types... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1877 - 456 Seiten
...Tennyson expresses this truth in the following lines : " The wish that of the living whole No iife may fail beyond the grave; Derives -it not from what...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 types... | |
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