Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do. Poems - Page 277by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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
...Sees in 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... | |
| Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - Universalism - 1847 - 444 pages
...increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of man are widen'd With the process of the suns. " Men, our brothers, men, the workers, Ever reaping something...done but earnest Of the things that they shall do." Yes, what has been done, and what is doing, is only the earnest of what shall yet be wrought out in... | |
| 1895 - 844 pages
...they may well look forward with hopefulness to the future, for of them it may be truly said : — Hen the workers, ever reaping something new ; That which...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... | |
| English literature - 1844 - 742 pages
...poet as he drew near the great capital " full of gold and misery." How vehemently • his spirit leapt within him, to be gone before him, then Underneath the light he looks out, in among the throngs of men." Fortune— coquette that she is — was not at the outset over-gracious... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; And his spirit leaps within him to be...they have done but earnest of the things that they «hall do : For I dipt into the future, far аз human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world,... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1847 - 584 pages
...even sum of ten pounds, owing to the deduction for Property Tax. THE COMING REFORMATION. PART IV. " Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something...That which they have done but earnest of the things which they will do." TENNYSON, Mr DEAR PERCY, — In my former letters I have explained what seem to... | |
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