...was never more concisely or precisely summarized than by Tennyson in ' The Princess,' ii., — " This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward...eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets." On these stanzas from xcv. : — " So word by word, and line by line, The dead man touch'd me from...

...the nebular hypothesis of La Place. See on Ixxxix. 12, above ; and cf. The Princess, ii. : — " This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward...eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets," etc. 5. Or, crown 'd with attributes of woe. The first ed. has " And " for Or. 6. Btit iron dug from...

...nebular hypothesis of La Place. See on Ixxxix. 12, above ; and cf. The Princess, ii. : — '' This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward...eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets," etc. 5. Or, crown 'd with attributes of woe. The first ed. has " And " for Or. 6. But iron dug from...

...characteristics with which we are familiar. "This world was a fluid haze of light. Till toward the center set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets." So Tennyson, who did not neglect the world in its scientific aspects in his devotion to its poetic...

...sister." " Comely, too, by all that's fair," Said Cyril. " O hush, hush ! " and she began. 100 " This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward...starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast 87. Forms, benches. The picture, the first of several such, though beautiful, has a touch of the condescension...

...sister." " Comely, too, by all that's fair," Said Cyril. " O hush, hush ! " and she began. 100 " This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward...starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast 87. Forms, benches. The picture, the first of several such, though beautiful, has a touch of the condescension...

...hush, hush! " and she began : 100 " This world was once a fluid haze of light,3 Till toward the center set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling...cast The planets ; then the monster, then the man, Tattoo'd or woaded,4 winter-clad in skins, Raw from the prime, and crushing down his mate ;5 As yet...

...science. In The Princess (II., 115 et seq.), Lady Psyche gives a learned discourse beginning: " This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward...cast The planets: then the monster, then the man." It is worth while to note the poet's interest in the geological story as exemplified in that poem in...

...formerly in a vaporous condition. Assuming that as our poet laureate has expressed the theory — This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward...And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets — we can form no other conception of our earth's primal condition than as a vapour flobe. Our moon...

...sister.' ' Comely, too, by all that 's fair,' Said Cyril. ' O hush, hush ! ' and she began. 100 'This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, follows Chaucer. . . . The passage alluded to is in the Wife of Bath's Tale.' The passage runs as follows...