 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...in gleaming rings Sluggishly winds through the plain : Whether in sound of the swallowing sea: — @ / Vainly does each as he glides Fable and dream 20 Of the lands which the River of Time Had left ere... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...the River of Time Had left ere he woke on its breast, Or shall reach when his eyes have been clos'd. Easy to think that grieving's folly, When the hand's f1rm as Rais'd by the objects he passes, are his. Who can see the green Earth any more As she was by the sources... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - Literary Criticism - 1916 - 416 pages
...from its source, the stream broadens, and great shapes of mountains and forests appear on the horizon. "As is the world on the banks, so is the mind of man." Human knowledge of the world itself has always been, and still is, limited to impressions of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1918 - 140 pages
...in gleaming rings Sluggishly winds through the plain; 15 Whether in sound of the swallowing sea — As is the world on the banks, So is the mind of the man. Vainly does each, as he glides, Fable and dream zc Only the tract where he sails He wots of; only the... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - History - 1920 - 524 pages
...in large measure possible to follow them as clues leading back to that actual experience of nature and life, which is the ultimate source of human fancy....River of Time, is most true of his mythic imagination : — ' A* is the world on the banks So is the mind of the man. Only the tract where he sails He wots... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Biological Evolution - 1920 - 356 pages
...subtle complex of liberating stimuli, which are to our potentialities as sunshine and rain to buds. " As is the world on the banks, so is the mind of man." " What we have inherited from our ancestors we must put to use, if it is to become our very own."... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...river in gleaming rings Sluggishly Wjnds through the plain; Whether in sound of the swallowing sea — As is the world on the banks, So is the mind of the man. Vainly does each, as he glides,. Fable and dream *° Of the lands which the river of Time Had left... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - English literature - 1923 - 456 pages
...river in gleaming rings Sluggishly winds through the plain; Whether in sound of the swallowing sea — As is the world on the banks, So is the mind of the man. Vainly does each as he glides Fable and dream Of the lands which the river of Time Had left ere he... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1924 - 1004 pages
...in large measure possible to follow them as clues leading back to that actual experience of nature and life, which is the ultimate source of human fancy....imagination : — ' As is the world on the banks So \» the mind of the man. Only the tract where he sails He wots of : only the thoughts, Raised by the... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 966 pages
...the river of Time Had left ere, he woke ou its breast. Or shall ivach when his eyes have been closed. Page WTho can see the green earth any more As she was by the sources of Time ? Who imagines her fields as... | |
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Of the lands which the river of Time Had left ere he woke on its breast, Or shall reach when his eyes have been closed. Only the tract where he sails He wots of; only the thoughts, Raised by the objects he passes, are his. 
