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" Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro... "
Lyrical Poems ... - Page 30
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 270 pages
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 33

Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains 'Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun...should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon 1 Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the peoples spin for ever down...
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The New Englander, Volume 7

Criticism - 1849 - 660 pages
...things :' acknowledges that ' meet is it changes should control our being, lest we rot in ease:' holds it 'better men should perish one by one, than that...should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon :' and kindling with enthusiasm cries, ' Forward, forward let us range : let the nations spin forever...
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The Living Age, Volume 199

1893 - 840 pages
...comparatively young man that Tennyson read the calm method of nature and time in emancipating man : — I that rather held it better men should perish one...should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon 1 Not iu vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever...
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Austria: Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube; Galicia, Styria ...

Johann Georg Kohl - Austria - 1844 - 548 pages
...so early; of all things, I should tike to have been born in the last age of the world, to have been the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of Time ! Towards midnight we proceeded on our way. The passengers began to retire to rest. The ladies' cabin...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...foreheads, Tacant of our glorious trains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ! I the heir of all tbe ages, in the foremost files of time— I that rather held it better men should perish one by one,...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun...that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Aijalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range ; Let the peoples spin for...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 12

1846 - 592 pages
...resting-place of the leader in the vanguard of science, the earliest herald of each successive triumph, ' The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time.' Fair, candid, and open to conviction in every minor detail, he refuses to admit those ideas alone,...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the hetr of all the agct, in the forcmott filet of time— I that rather held it better men should perish...
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Toil and Trial: A Story of London Life. To which are Added The Iron Rule ...

Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1849 - 196 pages
...rarely shown the graceful homage of respect from youth to age ; it cannot be shown sincerely by one " The heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of Time," who feels he is there, and holds his privilege to be closely yoked with duty. Pity and forbearance...
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Toil and trial. To which are added The iron rule, and, A story of ..., Volume 3

Camilla Crosland - 1849 - 188 pages
...rarely shown the graceful homage of respect from youth to age ; it cannot be shown sincerely by one " The heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of Time," who feels he is there, and holds his privilege to be closely yoked with duty. Pity and forbearance...
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