 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...warm, And moist and dry, devising long, Thro' many agents making strong, Matures the individual form. Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest...state, that plies Its office, moved with sympathy. A saying, hard to shape in act; For all the past of Time reveals A bridal dawn of thunder-peals, Wherever... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...warm, And moist and dry, devising long, Thro' many agents making strong, Matures the individual form. Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest...state, that plies Its office, moved with sympathy. A saying, hard to shape in act ; For all the past of Time reveals A bridal dawn of thunder-peals, Wherever... | |
 | American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...head in sickening of a vague disease," ho is too tremulous to attempt to preach, us that He tells " Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest...changed by still degrees, All but the basis of the soul.'1 We know this ; this is true. Tell us, Alfred Tennyson, if thou knowest, or ask thy master,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...warm, And moist and dry, devising long, Thro' many agents making strong, Matures the individual form. Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest...the basis of the soul. So let the change which comes he free To ingroove itself with that, which flies, And work, a joint of state, that plies Its office,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 252 pages
...warm, And moist and dry, devising long, Thro' many agents making strong, Matures the individual form. Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest...rust in ease. We all are changed by still degrees, So let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that, which flies, And work, a joint... | |
 | Walter Percival - Annuals, American - 1848 - 382 pages
...warm, And moist and dry, devising long, Thro' many agents making strong, Matures the individual form. Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest...joint of state, that plies Its office, moved with sympathyA saying, hard to shape in act; For all the past of Time reveals A bridul dawn of thunder-peals,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...but through a cullander; one,'however, tremulous to attempt to preach. He tells'— •- . . - • a Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest we rust in e;ise : We all are changed by still degrees, All but the basis of the soul." like the vases of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...For Nature also, cold and warm, And moist and dry, devising long, Thro' many agents making strong, Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest...but the basis of the soul. So let the change which conies be free To ingroove itself with that, which flies, And work, a joint of state, that plies Its... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1883 - 676 pages
...than to rust out.'" With this one should, I think, compare Tennyson's lines in On a Mourner : — " Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest we rust in ease." CHRISTIAN COLE. Inner Temple. In a MS. book of extracts I possess this is given as a saying of Bishop... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1850 - 136 pages
...of centuries it acquires a reputation which its officers are ashamed to fall below ; and a set * " Let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that which flies."—Tennyson. of maxims and principles resembling the habitual rules of a well principled man.... | |
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So let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that which flies, And work, a joint of state, that plies Its office, moved with sympathy. 
