 | Werner Senn - American literature - 1996 - 294 pages
...Amy, dreams of an escape from the West of technology and book-learning to an Oriental island paradise: There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this...in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramped no longer shall have scope and breathing space; I will take some savage... | |
 | Gerald Finley - Architecture - 1999 - 280 pages
...heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this...in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1842) URNER WAS BORN INTO AN AGE galvanized by revolution. The established... | |
 | Ian Littlewood - Travel - 2008 - 262 pages
...through the century as a refoge from the pressures of an increasingly mechanised and demanding world: 'There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this...the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind'. And always behind the impulse to escape there is the same insistent erotic keynote: 'There the passions... | |
 | David G. Riede - English poetry - 2005 - 236 pages
...by imagination, beauty, or passion than by the rush for progress characterized in "Locksley Hall," "in this march of mind / In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind" (ll.165-66). Sinfield describes the process cogently: "Finding imaginative impetus marginalized theoretically... | |
 | Rachel Wetzsteon - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 144 pages
...— / Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea./ There methinks would be employment more than in this march of mind,/ In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind."18 The soldier thinks he is leaving Locksley Hall behind, but he has only replaced one utopia... | |
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There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. 
