Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star,... Blackwood's Magazine - Página 3891856Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 838 páginas
...early thinkers that we owe our modern philosophy. Had there not been many a " Gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought,"t \ve should not have been able to travel on the secure terrestrial path of slow inductive... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1858 - 402 páginas
...; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of Iraman thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 páginas
...' He counts it vile to ' store and hoard' himself, while his ' gray spirit' is still ' yearning in desire to follow knowledge, like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought.' Therefore will he quit again his patrimonial dominions, and say to his brave comrades — ' My purpose... | |
| William Chambers - 1859 - 600 páginas
...!' He counts it vile to ' store and hoard' himself, while his ' gray spirit' is still ' yearning in desire to follow knowledge, like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought.' Therefore will he quit again his patrimonial dominions, and say to his brave comrades — ' My purpose... | |
| William Allingham - 1860 - 316 páginas
...; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me,... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1860 - 310 páginas
...; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle— Well-loved of me,... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1860 - 310 páginas
...; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me,... | |
| Gertrude Melton (fict.name.) - 1860 - 236 páginas
...his hope of one day attaining to name and fame — he had thought and studied this year, had tried " To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." He had other hopes and other aims, and — he was not miserable ; though looking back to the dream... | |
| John Leaf - 1861 - 500 páginas
...He counts it vile to " store and hoard " himself, while his " STBY spirit " is still " yearning in desire to follow knowledge, like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought." Therefore will he quit again his patrimonial dominions, and say to his brave comrades — " My purpose... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 páginas
...; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought Tliis is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me,... | |
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