...thinkers and workers in religion and art have dowered us with. No ! thunders the Laureate : — "I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious...me were sun or clime ? I, the heir of all the ages, iu the foremost files of time. Fool ! again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But...

...! but 1 know my words are wild, Hut I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. flI, ] Cu 5 | 9 Bu r {Os ` } 6 W |" +N paius ! Muted with a squalid savage, — what to mo were sun or clime ? I, the heir of all the ages,...

...Tennyson's Locksley Hall contains eight such feet, the last syllable being similarly cut off in every line: I the | heir of | all the | Ages | in the | foremost | files of | Time — | 1 See one of Spenser's own 'Stanzas' above (page 28). (c.) Of trisyllabic feet, that most frequently...

...Tennyson's Locksley Hall contains eight such feet, the last syllable being similarly cut off in erery line : I the | heir of | all the [ Ages | in the | foremost | files of | Time— [ 1 See one of Spenser's own 'Stanzas' above (page 28). (c.) Of trisyllabic feet, that most frequently...

...I know my words are wild, For I count the grey barbarian lower than the Christian child. * * * * # Mated with a squalid savage, what to me were sun or...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever...

...fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. /, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious...beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower r>ains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages,...

...(1960); J. Saville, 'The Welfare State', in The New Reasoner, no. 3 (1957). Ill LOOKING BACKWARDS I am the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time. Tennyson In order to estimate its [the nineteenth century's] full importance and grandeur ... we must...

...yearns, to marry some rich man of strong social position. Says second nature as voiced by Tennyson: "I, to herd with narrow foreheads vacant of our glorious...with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains. "I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of times, Match with a squalid savage •what to...

...toward a certain end shall come up later. Take, to fix our ideas, the two verses from 'Locksley Hall': "I, the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time/' and — 'Tor I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs." Why is it that when we recite...

...man is superior to the lower animals, so civilized white people are superior to dark-skinned savages "with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains,...beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains!"32 In this early poem, Tennyson foresaw only perpetual progress and the dawning of universal...