 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1847 - 892 pages
...after a season of absence, returns to the scene of his early education and hapless love, where of yore he " Wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long remit of tune." A feeling, cognate with, and yet more imperious than those his high aspirations, springs... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed; When I clung to all the present for the promise... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time ; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...after a season of absence, returns to the scene of his early education and hapless love, where of yore he " Wandered, nourishing a youth sublime "With the...fairy tales of science, and the long result of time." A feeling, cognate with, and yet more imperious than those his high aspirations, springs up in his... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1845 - 258 pages
...naturally present to an Ionian mind than the universality of water ? Had he not from boyhood upwards been familiar with the sea ? " There about the beach...he have been led to contemplate the all-embracing all-engulphing sea, upon whose throbbing breast the very earth itself reposed. This earth how finite... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. t Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time ; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - English language - 1845 - 214 pages
...us swear an oath, and keep it, with an equal mind — ax X 8, or ax X 8 —. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long results of Time ; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise... | |
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