...forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Mother- Age (for mine I knew not) help me as when life begun : Rift the hills, and...

...she shall rear my dusky race. ibid. I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. ibid. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. ibid. 1 Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. Dante, Inferno, Canto...

...better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward...world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a...

...existence beyond the grave, which spins out the years of immortality. As Lord Tennyson expresses it : "Not in vain the distance beacons Forward, forward...range. Let the great world spin forever — down the ranging grooves of change." Let us quit ourselves as brave men in life's active battle; Yet be ever...

...service for ends not more curative, or perhaps as much, than preventive in all pertaining to disease." "Not in vain the distance beacons, forward, forward,...spin forever down the ringing grooves of change." COMFORT AND SAFETY IN THEATRES AND PLACES OF PUBLIC RESORT. AS the season approaches for the re-opening,...

...Victorian thinkers. Nevertheless, whereas a poet such as Tennyson in 'Locksley Hall' (1842) could write, Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change, Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger...

...for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. CIP Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Alfred Tennyson Locksley Hall Contents Acknowledgments...

...panic. Tennyson, though he lived in the last century, saw as poets do what the future would bring: "Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change." One can only hope that the car will somehow stay on the rails. So things are different. Are they better?...

...to move "forward": "Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. / Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: / Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay" (182-84). The stunning Eurocentricism of these lines can be representative of an attitude...

...transcending the phenomenal flux but by a surrender to it. As Tennyson exclaimed in his most Victorian moment: Forward, forward let us range! Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. The belief in progress in its most naive form is still held by multitudes, especially in America. It...