 | Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of... | |
 | 1845 - 694 pages
...less rapid than it has been. In its very slowness lies danger : — ' Slowly comes a hungry people, aa a lion creeping nigher, Glares at one, that nods and winks behind a slowly dying fire.' It is no use to nod and wink and shut one's eyes, the lion comes on still. Famine, nakedness,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly dying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose run», And the thoughts of men are widened... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 436 pages
...This condition Tennyson has admirably described in poetry, . " Slowly сотен a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire." But this sure-footed fact, this lion — a hungry people — drawing slowly, but... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...are rendered abortive by the same discontent that produces them. ' Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly dying fire.' When the calamity is upon us, it may be too late to provide for our safety. But it is not only... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...nation is, when change ceases to be hoped for, or sighed for ; when Slowly comes a hungry people as a lion creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying nre.'f" * Coleridge. -)• Tennyson. 106 THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS. That " hungry people"... | |
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Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire.... 
