 | 1917 - 538 páginas
...and slowly but surely are disintegrating them. Thus nature is forever building up and tearing down. "The hills are shadows, and they flow from form to form, and nothing stands. They melt like mists, the solid land like clouds, they shape themselves and go." The Big Trees. The Mariposa Grove... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1912 - 638 páginas
...Atlantic. Movements have also occurred, as we have seen, on the continents. It is indeed true that ' where the long street roars hath been The .stillness of the central sea'; but its depths have nowhere equalled the abysses of the great oceans. Even the sea in which the white... | |
 | 1904 - 738 páginas
...judicious Professor Geikie (in his " Earth Sculpture") quotes wikh approval the lines of Tennyson: The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form and nothing stands. Let us complete the quotation: They melt like mists, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 páginas
...EXERCISE VI. (Tennyson). There rolls the deep, where grew the tree; 0 Earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There, where the long street roars, hath been...solid lands,— Like clouds, they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true; For, though my lips may breathe... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 910 páginas
...with thought:— ' And ull the phantom nature FtsmU A hollow form with empty hand*;' and again :— ' There, where the long street roars, hath been The...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.' A passage wherein is harmonized sublimity of thought and of expression. For instant vividness,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 páginas
...breaks out a rose. CXX1I. THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true : For tho' my lips may breathe... | |
 | William Garland Barrett - 1855 - 340 páginas
...solitary rambles:— " There rolls the deep where grew the tree;— 0 earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea." * We now enter upon the ancient life, or Palaeozoic period of the earth's history, and proceed to examine... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1857 - 540 páginas
...of Fancy blows, And every dew-drop paints a bow ; The wizard lightnings deeply glow, cxxi. The Mils are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, For though my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell.... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1858 - 312 páginas
...the eye of a true poet— " There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes bast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea." But the lifelessness of the carboniferous forests was amply compensated by the activity that reigned... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 234 páginas
...breaks out a rose. CXXII. THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. 0 earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe... | |
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seen ? There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands Like clouds they shape themselves and 
