| Elaine Jordan - 1988 - 212 pages
...where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows,...solid lands. Like clouds they shape themselves and go. (In Memoriam CXXIII) The truth which this prophet reveals is that of nineteenth-century science. But... | |
| Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pages
...changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. 5 The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, 10 And dream my dream, and hold it true; For though my lips may breathe... | |
| L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 pages
...momentary acts of sight and passion and thought."18 Or we have Tennyson, proposing in In Memoriam that The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. (sec. 123) For Pater's vision of a life in which "all melts under our feet," the preferred aim of existence... | |
| Andreas Fischer - 1994 - 276 pages
...where grew the tree. 0 earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow 5 From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 pages
...where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows,...solid lands. Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true; 10 For tho' my lips may breathe... | |
| Edward Picot - 1997 - 354 pages
...prophetic. Tennyson at least has the wit to confess openly that he is allowing his heart to rule his head: The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu,... | |
| Peter Barry - 2002 - 308 pages
...be our emblem of fragility, 8 hi .Memoriiini, 123: 'The hills arc shadows, and they flow / From torm to form, and nothing stands; / They melt like mist,...lands, / Like clouds they shape themselves and go'. a being redolent of a vanished era of human-scale agriculture and of a remote time when the primary... | |
| Luna Bergere Leopold, Markley Gordon Wolman, John P. Miller - 1995 - 548 pages
...Evolution of opes The hills are shadows, and they flow From form lo form, and nothing stands; They me1t like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. LORD TENNYSON In Memoriam Divergent Views of Hillslope Evolution The evolution through time of the... | |
| Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 pages
...For Tennyson, the problem is the loss of a traditionally assumed solidity. The hills are not eternal: The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. (Lines 5-8) If this is "perhaps the most beautiful rendition in English poetry of a modern scientific... | |
| H. G. Rawlinson - 2001 - 268 pages
...the West. " Nothing is permanent," was the fundamental tenet of both philosophers. " The hills arc shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mists, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." All is transitory, the earth beneath... | |
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