 Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn...  Miscellanies - Page 225by Charles Kingsley - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Fashion - 742 pages
...Yearning for the large cxcitament that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first ho leaves his father's field, And at night, along the dusky highway near anil nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn, And his spirit leaps... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...me, and the tumult of my life; Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's...heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 742 pages
...poet as he drew near the great capital " full of gold and misery." How vehemently • his spirit leapt within him, to be gone before him, then Underneath the light he looks out, in among the throngs of men." Fortune— coquette that she is — was not at the outset over-gracious... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...me, and the tumult of my life ; Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's...heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...me, and the tumult of my life ; Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusty highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1920 - 666 pages
...modern ideas when Tennyson wrote in 'Locksley Hall' (first published in 1842) the striking lines : — And at night along the dusky highway, near and nearer...heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn. I do not know why a " dreary " dawn should flare more than any other, and suspect the adjective came... | |
 | Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1849 - 196 pages
...unwise indulgence, and certainly escape every symptom of the Iron Eule ! A STOEY OF THE WEST END. 1 And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer...heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn I " TINWYSON. A STORY OF THE WEST END. CHAPTER I. " To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps... | |
 | Camilla Crosland - 1849 - 188 pages
...unwise indulgence, and certainly escape every symptom of the Iron Rule ! A STOKY OF THE WEST END. ' And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer...heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ! " TBNNYSON. A STORY OF THE WEST END. CHAPTER I. " To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his fatber's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and...Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...me, and the tumult of my life; Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's...Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest... | |
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