 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pagina’s
...like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pagina’s
...? Let us not look back. The distance beacons, and not in vain. " Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." Only let the men of England see to it that this movement of advance, as far as they are concerned,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pagina’s
...like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | 1846 - 592 pagina’s
...with the process of the suns. — Not in rain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.' The course of a pursuit so long dormant, so rapidly advancing, and so widely spreading, is a moral... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pagina’s
...language of the poet Laureate, — " Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range 1 Let the great world spin for ever Down the ringing grooves of change ! Through the shadow of the globe, We sweep into a younger day ; Better fifty years of Europe, Than... | |
 | 1892 - 688 pagina’s
...apostle of progress, as emphatically shown in the inciting words : Forward, forward, let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. After reading the poem in his deep monotone, be told us that he was present at the first opening of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pagina’s
...like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | John Watkins - 1850 - 296 pagina’s
...poem crammed with such passages as these, ' A year in England is worth a cycle in Cathay' — ' Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change' — ' Slowly comes a hungry people, like a lion creeping slowly, towards one who dozes, winking, behind... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pagina’s
...like Joshua's moon in Ajalon! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
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Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. 
