 Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's pale history runs, — What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns...  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 57edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Voltaire - 1905 - 234 pages
...to thé southward. Pagre 35. — i. atome de boue; for thé thought cf. Tennyson's poem Vastness: " Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's pale history runs, — What is it ail but a trouble of ants in thé light of a million million of sans." Page 37. — i. A d'autres,... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1906 - 446 pages
...these verses, 1 The fourth line of " Vastness " scans thus: 1234 56 _ WW _ W \J _ WW _ \J \J _ WW _ _ What is it ] all but a | trouble of | ants in the | gleam of a | million vy — — million of | suns |, a dactylic octameter catalectic (ie cut short). with the accent on... | |
 | Michael John Fitzgerald McCarthy - 1906 - 756 pages
...was almost double that with which Mr. Disraeli held power from 1874 to 1880. The time was one of " raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's pale history runs." The descriptions of the march of the " men " of Leicester to London to see the King were humiliating.... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1907 - 404 pages
...after many a vanish'd face, Many a planet by many a sun may roll with the dust of a vanish'd race. "Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's...in the gleam of a million million of suns? "What is it all, if we all of us end but in being our own corpsecoffins at last, Swallowed in Vastness, lost... | |
 | Otto Luitpold Jiriczek - 1907 - 518 pages
...after many a vanish'd face, Many a planet by many a sun may roll with the dust of a vanish'd race. Raving politics, never at rest— as this poor earth's...of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? Lies upon this side, lies upon that side, truthless violence mourn'd by the Wise, Thousands of voices... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 376 pages
...after many a vanish'd face, Many a planet by many a sun may roll with the dust of a vanish'd race. IL Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's...What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam 223 HI. Lies upon this side, lies upon that side, truthless violence mourn'd by the Wise, Thousands... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1907 - 354 pages
...which science reveals tend to pessimism when divorced from belief in a great overruling Purpose : " What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns t Swallow 'd in vastiness, lost in silence, drown'd in the depths of a meaningless past. What bat a... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1907 - 1156 pages
...sought elsewhere. As for everything which does not enlarge the bounds of knowledge, what is it all but ? trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? If all science, except natural science, be science falsely so called, the human intellect must inevitably... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 630 pages
...after many a vanish' d face, Many a planet by many a sun may roll with the dust of a vanish'd race. Q. Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's...of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? 1n. Lies upon this side, lies upon that side, truthless violence mourn'd by the Wise, Thousands of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 628 pages
...after many a vanish' d face, Many a planet by many a sun may roll with the dust of a vanish' d race. n, Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's...of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? 1n. Lies upon this side, lies upon that side, truthless violence mourn' d by the Wise, Thousands of... | |
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