 | 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1870 - 228 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Bible and geology - 1871 - 484 pages
...overtake our own race also, and a time come when men and their works shall have no existence save as stone-pervaded fossils locked up in the rock for ever....lends such evil dreams, So careful of the type she Beems, So careless of the single life ? ' So careful of the type !' hut no, From scarped cliff and... | |
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Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life... 
