 | 1895 - 588 pages
...past, they may well look forward with hopefulness to the future, for of them it may be truly said: ' Men the workers, ever reaping something new ; That...they have done but earnest of the things that they will do.' What is to be the next great step in the political career of Canada is a question which frequently... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1852 - 732 pages
...to record that, from the year 1851, the stout hearted and true-hearted men of Sunderland — Men our brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something...That which they have done but earnest of the things which they will do — rose rapidly in the scale of commercial and maritime greatness, and by increased... | |
 | Fashion - 742 pages
...heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn, And his spirit leaps within him to lie gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men." A beautiful picture. Tennyson, thou art the most seductive of mannerists ! Had I written such poetry... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - Industrial arts - 1868 - 856 pages
...may behold without doubting a part of the increasing purpose that runs through the ages — . . . . " Men the workers ever reaping something new ; That...done but earnest of the things that they shall do." No institution is entitled to outlive the utility of its functions ; may the Royal Scottish Society... | |
 | 1842 - 788 pages
...heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at,...and all the wonder that would be'; Saw the heavens fill'd with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 558 pages
...heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at,...and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill'd with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something...and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails. Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at,...and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at,...and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
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For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard... 
