 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
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 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,... | |
 | 1906 - 562 páginas
...we owe all the sciences, and the science of sciences, out of which they grew. As such he yearned in desire "To follow knowledge like a sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." When Tennyson pictured Ulysses as starting forth on new adventures in old age, he followed a hint given... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 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 human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1868 - 720 páginas
...prodigally with its arts, kindles a wider inspiration from the fountain lights of freedom, follows knowledge, like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought. * * * * superiority of a race can no more exempt it from the obligations of justice and mercy, than... | |
 | Living voices - 1873 - 588 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,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 páginas
...man, a man of men, an old man of old men, when pictured by the poet as " this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." NIGHT THOUGHTS, FEARS, AND FANCIES. EJTHER made Christendom his confidant, in his table-talk, as to... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Heaton - 1874 - 392 páginas
...inhabitants the withering indignation of Savonarola. But art alone was insufficient food for this great spirit, " Yearning with desire To follow knowledge...sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." In all branches of literature and science his universal' genius loved to test its powers ; in all he... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 200 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,... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 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,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 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,... | |
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