 | American Microscopical Society - Microscopy - 1912 - 386 pages
...prodigality of Nature,—the wasteful largesse of individuals,—of life itself. "Nature", to quote Tennyson, So careful of 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1995 - 244 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...the type she seems, So careless of the single life; That, I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, 10 And finding that of fifty seeds... | |
 | Edward Picot - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 354 pages
...escaped from God's control and rebelled against his wishes? Tennyson writes in Section LV of his poem — 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... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - History - 1995 - 298 pages
...conserving power which tends everywhere to fixity of type. And this reminds us of the lines of Tennyson: "Are God and nature, then, at strife, That nature...careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life."16 Hence, when a race once seats itself permanently in a land it is almost as impossible to get... | |
 | Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 520 pages
...mechanistic nature indifferent to human life and values. As Tennyson wrote in "in Mcmoriam AHH" (1850). Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life. (p. 397) When he reflects further, the situation seems still worse, nature does not even seem to value... | |
 | John Cottingham - Philosophy - 1998 - 250 pages
...which countless individuals and species perish: Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature leads such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems,.... . 'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped clifTand quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone I care for nothing, all shall go.' Tennyson... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creatlon moves. 1 1579 In Memoriam AHH (of Nature) Adventures of Sally When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. 1 1580 'Merlin and The Gleam' After it. follow it. Follow The Gleam. 11581 'Northern Farmer. New Style'... | |
 | John Harris, Søren Holm - Bioethics - 1998 - 270 pages
...viewpoint seems to lead to a vision more similar to that presented by Tennyson when he wrote that Nature 'so careful of the type she seems, so careless of the single life'. Therefore a unique genetic combination is to be seen just as one occurrence out of infinite possibilities... | |
 | Andrew Linzey, Dorothy Yamamoto - Nature - 1998 - 322 pages
...they can conceive no higher standard than Nature's Way, and simultaneously denounce that standard. Are God and Nature then at strife, that Nature lends such evil dreams?25 The only sensible answer would seem to be: yes. What should happen and what does are no closer... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - Fiction - 1999 - 524 pages
...an appropriate context. I quote The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (London: Macmillan, 1884), 261.] That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of...life "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cuff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. "Thou... | |
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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... 
