 Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire....  Essays in Biography and Criticism - Side 112af Peter Bayne - 1860Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 sider
...all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping...one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with... | |
 | 1843 - 424 sider
...all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping...one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 sider
...all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping...one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen 'd with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 sider
...things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that noils and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose... | |
 | 1845 - 694 sider
...less rapid than it has been. In its very slowness lies danger : — ' Slowly comes a hungry people, aa a lion creeping nigher, Glares at one, that nods and winks behind a slowly dying fire.' It is no use to nod and wink and shut one's eyes, the lion comes on still. Famine,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sider
...things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping...one that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widen'd with... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 566 sider
...things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly dying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose run», And the thoughts... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 436 sider
...day for the future. This condition Tennyson has admirably described in poetry, . " Slowly сотен a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares...one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire." But this sure-footed fact, this lion — a hungry people — drawing slowly, but certainly, upon the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 sider
...all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping...one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 470 sider
...old. But the last worst stage of a nation is, when change ceases to be hoped for, or sighed for ; when Slowly comes a hungry people as a lion creeping nigher,...Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying nre.'f" * Coleridge. -)• Tennyson. 106 THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS. That " hungry people" is our times'... | |
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