| Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete ; " That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. " Behold ! we know not any thing ;... | |
| Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...oue life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete ; That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold ! we know not anything ; I can... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete ; That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold ! we know not anything ; I can... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...one life shall be destroy 'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete ; That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anything ; I can... | |
| English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish in the void, When God hnth made the pile complete. " That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivell'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain." The persons of whom he is called... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...one life shall be destroy 'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When Grod hath made the pile complete : That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anything ; I can... | |
| H. C. Foster - English poetry - 1853 - 378 pages
...one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete ; That not a worm is cloven in vain, That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold ! we know not any thing ; At... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1853 - 906 pages
...pangs of nature, sins of will, Defect of doubt and taints of blood : Will lie the final goal of ill, That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold! we know not anything : At... | |
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete. That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivell'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold! we know not anything; I can... | |
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