| 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
...how true to love, and therefore to God, is the strong desire for personal identity and recognitioo, though compelled to struggle with spiritual trusts...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 one... | |
| American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...all ; " and in " The Two Voices " there are the same turns of thought as in No. 54, about nature : " So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life." But in these quasi sonnets Mr. Tennyson's v quietism found its most natural outlet. The dreaminess... | |
| 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... | |
| 1883 - 500 pages
...Stanley. He could not believe him to be altogether in earnest. CHAPTER III. SUMMUM JUS, SliMMA INJUBIA. " So careful of the type she seems So careless of the single life." TENNYSON. Is it certain that competitive examination is the surest test of relative efficiency ? So... | |
| 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... | |
| 1850 - 602 pages
...of Shakspeare love thee more." Nor does Love fear the holiness of God's sainted ones. How noble, how truly Christian and trustful, is this vindication...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 - 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...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 one... | |
| 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...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 one... | |
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