 | Frank Ballard - 1900 - 396 pages
...of the heart which, in such case, cries out against Goethe's helpless and hopeless determinism — " Not only cunning casts in clay : Let science prove...science unto men, At least to me ? I would not stay." But when it is further demonstrated that the road to this abyss of despair is blocked by greater and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 144 pages
...friendship of thine eye ; And in my thoughts with scarce a sigh I take the pressure of thine hand. cxx TRUST I have not wasted breath: I think we are not...vain, Like Paul with beasts, I fought with Death; cxx Not only cunning casts in clay: Let Science prove we are, and then What matters Science unto men,... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1900 - 262 pages
...was weary of the claim of Science to be greater than Art, and that he feared it might stifle poetry : Let Science prove we are, and then, What matters Science unto men, At least to me ? And he speaks still more particularly in a poem, the Parnassus of 1889 : What be those two shapes... | |
 | 1910 - 614 pages
...merely an act of insensate rage, as one who revengefully kicks a stone which has caused him to stumble. "I think we are not wholly brain, Magnetic mockeries...prove we are and then What matters Science unto men." So sang one of England's greatest poets, a true seer. So says that still, small voice which ever whispers... | |
 | Morton Luce - 1901 - 180 pages
...will soon meet with stern rebuke, and even denunciation, especially when it would uproot Faith — " Let science prove we are, and then What matters science unto men?" In Maud — " The man of science himself is fonder of glory, and vain, An eye well-practised in nature,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 358 pages
...edition. And. 26. Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnets, cxli.: "To any sensual feast with thee alone." CXIX cxx I trust I have not wasted breath : I think we are...fought with Death ; Not only cunning casts in clay: 5 Let Science prove we are, and then What matters Science unto men, At least to me ? I would not stay.... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, Sir Alfred C. Lyall - 1902 - 260 pages
...having "fought with death," he resolves that we cannot be "wholly brain, magnetic mockeries" — ' Not only cunning casts in clay : Let Science prove...Science unto men, At least to me? I would not stay." After this manner Tennyson made his stand against the encroachments of Science upon the spiritual domain... | |
 | 1904 - 542 pages
...good." When growing knowledge leads to another goal than this, then shall it be thrust aside, — " Not only cunning casts in clay : Let Science prove we are. and then What matters Science unto men? " ui it ted to violate. At these its authority stops; at these the poet makes a beginning, puts on... | |
 | Dorothea Price Hughes - 1904 - 802 pages
...beneath the tempestuous sea of his outer life. The section and especially " Who loves not knowledge " ; " I trust I have not wasted breath : I think we are not wholly brain" is much emphasised; also the section commencing "That which we dare invoke to bless ; Our dearest faith;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1905 - 280 pages
...friendship of thine eye ; And in my thoughts with scarce a sigh I take the pressure of thine hand. CXX i I TRUST I have not wasted breath : I think we are...in vain, Like Paul with beasts, I fought with Death : it Not only cunning casts in clay : Let Science prove we are, and then What matters Science unto... | |
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I trust I have not wasted breath: I think we are not wholly brain, Magnetic mockeries; not in vain, Like Paul with beasts, I fought with Death; Not only cunning casts in clay: Let Science prove we are, and then What matters Science unto men, At least... 
