quote · Legacy record
Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, / And the thoughts of men are widen'd by the process of the suns.
Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, / And the thoughts of men are widen'd by the process of the suns.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1809–1892)
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Tennyson. · Y
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