| Henry Maudsley - Biological psychiatry - 1867 - 506 pages
...evolution of mankind she sacrifices with like lavish profusion countless thousands of individual lives. " So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life." It behoves us not to let these failures, these abortive minds, pass away without learning the lesson... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1867 - 234 pages
...No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul ? Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams 1 So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere... | |
| Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1896 - 320 pages
...dominant fact in all life from the beginning, that the individual must suffer for the common good. " So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life." Through the long upward march of the race, it has ruthlessly trampled the individual under foot, and... | |
| George MacDonald - English literature - 1868 - 356 pages
...life may fail beyond the grave ; Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul ? Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She... | |
| 1868 - 518 pages
...anticipated SI. de Broglie. See the well-known linea of ' In Memoriam,' where the poet says of Nature: ' So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life." In the next page, however, the Laureate questions the alleged carefulness of Nature even for the type.... | |
| Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (bart.), F. H. Doyle - English poetry - 1869 - 142 pages
...life may fail beyond the grave; Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul? ' Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life; 'That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She... | |
| Criticism - 1870 - 748 pages
...life may fail beyond the grave — Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul ? " Are God and Nature, then, at strife, That Nature lends...? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of th« single life ; " That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that... | |
| Thomas Doubleday - 1870 - 190 pages
...Tennyson to paint nature as "red in tooth and claw," and hold up his hands in amazement at her deeds, " So careful of the type she seems ; So careless of the single life ! " Thousands, to whom the power of thus expressing their feelings has been denied, have felt as Mr.... | |
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