 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...ultimately victorious, with Hegel as with Browning. Hear Walt Whitman's lilies on reading Hegel : " Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little...hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead." The development of Hegel's pure,... | |
 | Robert Browning - Poetry - 1881 - 1006 pages
...ultimately victorious, with Hegel as with Browning. Hear Walt Whitman's lines on reading Hegel : " Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little...hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead." The development of Hegel's pure,... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...their separate diverse flight, She hers, he his, pursuing. ROAMING IN THOUGHT. (After reading HEGEL.) Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little...hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead. A FARM PICTURE. THROUGH the ample... | |
 | Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout - Great Britain - 1885 - 424 pages
...blooms, And fills the earth with use and beauty." The conclusion, too, must be that of the poet : — " Roaming in thought over the universe, I saw the little that is good steadily hastening toward immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1889 - 70 pages
...moment — but what does eternity indicate? Ibid. Stanza 44. ROAMING IN THOUGHT (After reading HEGEL.) Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little...hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead. I believe of all those men and... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Africa - 1889 - 76 pages
...moment — but what does eternity indicate? Ibid. Stanza 44. ROAMING IN THOUGHT (After reading HEGF.L.) Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little...hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead. I believe of all those men and... | |
 | Drama - 1906 - 554 pages
...and it is evil, it is the obstacle to human progress, but it shall not endure, shall not triumph. ' Roaming in thought over the Universe I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening toward immortality, And the vast all that is call I'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1891 - 210 pages
...is to perish, of all good to become permanent. Walt Whitman beautifully expresses this. He says : " Roaming in thought over the universe, I saw the little...is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and became lost and dead ". Mr. Browning goes much further than this, however, and declares : — In this... | |
 | William Clarke - Poets, American - 1892 - 162 pages
...the fact of evil as being as natural \ and important as any other in the full spirit of optimism. " Roaming in Thought over the Universe, I saw the little...hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead." * There is nothing to be said on this world-old problem 1 Civilisation : Its Cause and Cure. (London... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1895 - 364 pages
...is comprehended in his vision; but " God is it that transcends." He might say with Whitman : — " Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little...hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead." ' Browning has achieved the final, the most difficult of all reconciliations : life to him is absurd,... | |
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ROAMING in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead. 
