 Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain.  The Princess: A Medley - Strana 76autor/autoři: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 182 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1875 - 240 str.
...conformed to its divine ideal, and the poet's hope may at last be found to have been realised :— That not a worm is cloven in vain, That not a moth...a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Verily, if this be true, then, in spite of pain and death, we may still say, with the Psalmist, The... | |
 | Erasmus Manford - 1875 - 414 str.
...disproportioned fates." That great Poet of this century, Alfred Tennyson, strikes the true note : " Behold ! we know not anything ; I can but trust that...last — far off— at last to all, And every winter chan[jed to spring." " That God which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one... | |
 | 1876 - 564 str.
...with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete ; That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anything ; I can... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 str.
...with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cost as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete ; That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anything ; I can... | |
 | 1889 - 76 str.
...veil that hides the infinite beneath us and beyond, we must come back with the sad confession : — " Behold, we know not anything ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last—far off—at last, to all." A not unreasonable, yet a blind trust, for we cannot hope to understand.... | |
 | Graham Hough - 1978 - 260 str.
...with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God has made the pile complete; That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire 1 Ibid. p. 157. 1 Lyell, i, p. 157. Is shrivell'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain.... | |
 | C. Leon Harris - 1981 - 360 str.
...walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire ls shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anything; l... | |
 | Elaine Jordan - 1988 - 212 str.
...generic plural ('Oh yet we trust that somehow good / Will be the final goal of ill') to the singular ('I can but trust that good shall fall / At last - far off - at last, to all') to the infant, 'with no language but a cry'. LV offers the hope that although Nature is careless of... | |
 | Lewis Perry - 1989 - 479 str.
...spiritual crisis had reached an acute form.* "Tennyson's often quoted In Memoriam is a poem of doubt. Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that...shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all. Cultivated Class in Late Nineteenth Century Change was a dramatic and inexorable element of life —... | |
 | Lewis Perry - 1989 - 479 str.
...spiritual crisis had reached an acute form.* * Tennyson's often quoted In Memoriam is a poem of doubt. Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last—-far off-—at last, to all. Cultivated Class in Late Nineteenth Century Change was a dramatic... | |
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