 Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life, That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but...  The New Englander - Page 2401870Full view - About this book
 | 1883 - 498 pages
...may be our personal views, may we not ask the question that Tennyson asks in the following verse ? " The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...from what we have ? The likest God within the soul." (Concluded. in our next.) .frmtir 0r A SEQUEL TO "OLIVER RAYMOND." BY B. JOSEPH AXTON. CHAPTER XI.... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...a protest and protection against the heartless mockery of any " remerging in the general Soul."" " The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 872 pages
...are reconciled. X. I congratulate you on your conviction— on having no pestilent demand to meetAre God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? (By the way, I wonder how many readers of "In Memoriam" have chafed at the almost random touch allotted... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...I falter where I firmly trod." And thus his " larger hope," originating in sentiment, " The jci's/i that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave," is found in conflict with " Nature's evil dreams," which so-called evil dreams form a strong analogical... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1898 - 664 pages
...lines. They were not consciously in my mind when I wrote the note ante, p. 18. ' In Memoriam,' Iv. — The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...not from what we have The likest God within the soul Î MR. CL FORD (ante, p. 110) seems to me to misinterpret this stanza when he saye :— "The very words... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...as a protest and protection against the heartless mockery of any " remerging in the general Soul." " The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering every where Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. LIV. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail...? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language hut a cry. 77 LIT. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail...? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...a protest and protection against the heartless mockery of any " remerging in the general Soul." * " The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...not from what we have The likest God within the soul ? 1850.] IN MEMORIAM. Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams ? So careful... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. LIT. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail...? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that... | |
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