| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 páginas
...Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage—what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like... | |
| 1851 - 318 páginas
...Fscp. 8vo. (Bosworth.) cident, yet gathers together the moral force which the present yields to him, as "The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time." This is essentially and precisely the case in his beautiful poem of "The Resignation." The story enshrines... | |
| 1851 - 608 páginas
...hair, hurl their lancee in the sun." We would seek other qualities in wife of ours, and we think, " Mated with a squalid savage, what to me were sun or...heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time." Further down the nave, " down east," there is another statue, by Hiram Powers, " The Greek Slave,"... | |
| William Mountford - 1852 - 542 páginas
...with worlds the wilderness, Waters with tears of ancient sorrow Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow. — I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. — TENNYSOK. AUBIN. 0 FOR a day of ancient Greece ! O to have been quickened for a week at Rome, in... | |
| 1852 - 302 páginas
...out the passages of striking force and beauty for themselves, and we need not point them to such as " I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time ;" Or " But I deem the grey barbarian lower than the Christian child." These and there are many such)... | |
| 1853 - 604 páginas
...how could Progress, which is the law of our being, ever have been achieved ? " No ! we rather hold it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon on Ajalou! Not in vain the distance beckons :—forward, forward let us range, Let the great world... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - 1853 - 610 páginas
...past efforts of humanity towards the fulfilment of its destiny and the attainment of its ideal — " The heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of Time," — in whom we may hope to see the realisation of all that is possible to man, and the gradual and... | |
| 1853 - 528 páginas
...and poverty. Our object in this paper is not to laud the past, is not to prove that our era,— " — the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time," is blacker and more shameful than the truth and fact or, of the means adopted to ensure certainty and... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 316 páginas
...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun...that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon hi Ajalon! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin... | |
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