| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beaeons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 356 pages
...better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! 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' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! 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 the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger... | |
| 1887 - 560 pages
...service for ends not more curative, or perhaps as much, than preventive in all pertaining to disease." "Not in vain the distance beacons, forward, forward,...spin forever down the ringing grooves of change." COMFORT AND SAFETY IN THEATRES AND PLACES OF PUBLIC RESORT. AS the season approaches for the re-opening,... | |
| G. J. Whitrow - 1989 - 244 pages
...Victorian thinkers. Nevertheless, whereas a poet such as Tennyson in 'Locksley Hall' (1842) could write, Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change, Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger... | |
| Ernst Breisach - 1993 - 276 pages
...for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. CIP Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Alfred Tennyson Locksley Hall Contents Acknowledgments... | |
| William J. Leonard - 1993 - 388 pages
...panic. Tennyson, though he lived in the last century, saw as poets do what the future would bring: "Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change." One can only hope that the car will somehow stay on the rails. So things are different. Are they better?... | |
| Deirdre David - 1995 - 256 pages
...to move "forward": "Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. / Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: / Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay" (182-84). The stunning Eurocentricism of these lines can be representative of an attitude... | |
| Irving Babbitt - 1995 - 416 pages
...transcending the phenomenal flux but by a surrender to it. As Tennyson exclaimed in his most Victorian moment: Forward, forward let us range! Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. The belief in progress in its most naive form is still held by multitudes, especially in America. It... | |
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