 | William Forsell Kirby - 1883 - 232 σελίδες
...contents, with which we are all familiar. * 2 Esdras, ch. xiv. CHAPTER V. DARWIN AND HIS CRITICS. " Flower in the crannied wall, if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is." TENNYSON. "By properly understanding... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 244 σελίδες
...the parent simile (Iliad, xv. 618 sqq.). The idea in the little poem (a metaphysical platitude)— Flower in the crannied wall, if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is — is expressed by Donne (Sermons,... | |
 | Charles Bigg - 1895 - 376 σελίδες
...manifold virtues immanent in one seed. Yet even these similes are too material. It has been said of " the flower in the crannied wall " — " ' - - - if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in ail, I should know what God anil man is." tr. 1 V, For the whole world went... | |
 | Laurence Henry Schwab - 1897 - 296 σελίδες
...intellectual progress has illuminated "the idea of God." Tennyson is wiser in what he says of the " flower in the crannied wall " : " . . . if I could understand, What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is." interest. This is true of all that... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, Sir Alfred C. Lyall - 1902 - 218 σελίδες
...contemplation of the mystery that no scientific research can penetrate or unravel, when he plucks the flower in the crannied wall — " If I could understand What you are, root and all, I should know what God and man is." " Toute I'lmmensite" traverse 1'humble fleur du penseur... | |
 | Mrs. Juliette Aurelia Graves Adams, Mrs. Crosby Adams - 1903 - 152 σελίδες
...blue sky from which they had caught their cerulian hue. II I did not then know that Tennyson had said: "Flower in the crannied wall, ****** if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. " but Bryant's poem, " Thou waitest... | |
 | John Richardson Illingworth - 1903 - 322 σελίδες
...primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.' D with Tennyson's ' Flower in the crannied wall ' — ' If I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.' The flower is more real to the philosopher... | |
 | 1905 - 634 σελίδες
...not that secret satisfaction, that unconscious realisation of rest, which give comfort to the heart. Flower in the crannied wall, . . . If I could understand What you are. That is Tennyson — "if I could understand." Wordsworth cared not about "understanding"; when he described... | |
 | 1911 - 600 σελίδες
...the last winner of a horse race to the leading article just off the press. Tennyson's note is saner : "Flower in the crannied wall, If I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is." From the flower, no doubtv a being... | |
 | 1918 - 784 σελίδες
...understand the universe itself? I and the universe are one sings the Ti ascendentalist, and thus it is : " Flower in the crannied wall .... If I could understand What you are, root and all— and all in all, 1 should know what God and man is." One of our most distinguished Librarians,... | |
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Flower in the crannied wall, • • • • • If I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. 
