I trust I have not wasted breath: I think we are not wholly brain, Magnetic mockeries; not in vain, Like Paul with beasts, I fought with Death; Not only cunning casts in clay: Let Science prove we are, and then What matters Science unto men, At least... The Princess: A Medley - Pagina 186de Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 182 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
| Peter Bayne - 1879 - 470 pagini
...life as a pretended gift, but real burden and cheat. 1 trust I have not wasted breath : 1 think we arc not wholly brain, Magnetic mockeries ; not in vain, Like Paul with beasts, I fought with Death ; Xot only cunning casts in clay ; Let Science prove we are, and then What matters Science unto men,... | |
| 1879 - 524 pagini
...thine eye ; And in my thoughts with scarce a sigh l take the pressure of thine hand. cxx. I v«гav l have not wasted breath : I think we are not wholly brain. Magnetic mockeries ; not in rain, Like Paul with beasts, l fought with Death; Not only cumdng cast* in elay : Let Sciem'e prove... | |
| Samuel Gosnell Green - 1880 - 136 pagini
...man's organism. This, it is true, is from the dust of the ground ; but the other is from above. We are not only " cunning casts in clay," — "Let Science...prove we are, and then What matters Science unto men?" The moral nature of man, his sense of right and wrong, his conscience, are of heaven, not of earth.... | |
| Joseph William Reynolds - 1881 - 482 pagini
...of sight. ' ' We trust we have not wasted breath : We think we are not wholly brain — ***** " Nor only cunning casts in clay ; Let science prove we...and then What matters science unto men, At least to us ? We still would pray ! " In Memoriam. THOUGHT XI. MIRACLES ARE CREDIBLE. "The first note of interrogation... | |
| 1882 - 552 pagini
...forms of animal life, with the dust as his only origin, and the grave as his only goal. " I ; i nst I have not wasted breath ; I think we are not wholly brain, Magnetic mockeries ; not in vain lake Paul with beasts I've fought with death." " Not only cunning casts in clay: Let science prove... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pagini
...of thine eye ; And in my thoughts with scarce a sigh I take the pressure of thine hand. cxx. I TRUST I have not wasted breath : I think we are not wholly...Science unto men, At least to me ? I would not stay. I*«t him, the wiser man who springs Hereafter, up from childhood shape His action like the greater... | |
| Irish ecclesiastical record - 1883 - 790 pagini
...even in the teeth of Science. We could not believe it if our own eyes did not tell us so. " I trust I have not wasted breath : I think we are not wholly...matters Science unto men, At least to me ? I would uot stay. " Let him, the wiser man who springs Hereafter, up from childhood shape His action like the... | |
| John Fordyce - 1883 - 490 pagini
...the organization of matter, but the cause." LIONEL S. BEALE. ' I trust I have not wasted breath : 1 think we are not wholly brain, Magnetic mockeries...vain, Like Paul with beasts, I fought with Death.' TENNYSON. 'Atheism and Materialism are no necessary results of Scientific Method.'— W. STANLEY JEVONS.... | |
| Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1883 - 756 pagini
...feeling, is marred by this discordant note — " Not only cunning casts iu clay : Let science tt acb we are, and then What matters science unto men, At least to me ? / would not stay." And in his late poem, Despair, he draws a terrible picture of the hopeless misery... | |
| 1884 - 868 pagini
...holy spirit without coming back strengthened from the journey. The poet says, very nobly, "I trust I have not wasted breath; I think we are not wholly...wiser man, who springs Hereafter, up from childhood shapo His action like the greater npe, Bnt I was made for other things." Love is a mighty revealer... | |
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