...; 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,...

...resources. He longed with insatiable desire to discover truth; as Tennyson has expressed it, " Yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." How finely expressive of this unsatisfied desire are these lines, which another Grecian poet, Timon...

...; 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,...

...; 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,...

...; and vile it were For some three suns to store and board 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,...

...; 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 l leave the sceptre and the isle— W ell-loved of me,...

...age, after a long, eventful, practical life ; what we may learn from * this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." There is a profound significance in the utterance of one who, in extremest age, has for us these words...

...capabilities. One may be fired with as restless a spirit of inquiry as possessed Ulysses — " Yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." Another is impelled by avarice; a third by love of excitement ; a fourth by a fear of poverty ; a fifth...

...the poem symbolizes the passionate desire felt by all noble souls " to seek a newer world " — '• To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."l It little profits that, an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched...

...entitled ''By an Evolutionist'' shows us that the poet has made his own the aim of his Ulysses — " To follow knowledge like a sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.'1 An English writer in " The Athenaeum" (presumably Mr. Theodore Watts) has furnished so apt...