As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me 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... Foundation Studies in Literature - Página 171por Margaret Sullivan Mooney - 1895 - 292 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Allingham - 1860 - 316 páginas
...bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like...isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the... | |
| Gertrude Melton (fict.name.) - 1860 - 228 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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| 1861 - 704 páginas
...growth in every field of human life which it touches. This is the spirit that dominates the age — a "spirit yearning in desire To follow. knowledge like...sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." • Science too is power. How grand are its achievements ! They are the pride of the race, which they... | |
| John Leaf - 1861 - 502 páginas
...shine in use | " 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 - 1862 - 698 páginas
...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 rTo follow knowledge, like a sinking starf* ^ Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my... | |
| George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - 1863 - 224 páginas
...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...isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful... | |
| 1863 - 224 páginas
...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...isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' sofi degrees Subdue them to the useful... | |
| 1863 - 326 páginas
...honored of them all ; And drunk delight of glory with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre, and the isle ; Well loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 312 páginas
...interesting description — Malacca, Fort St. George, and Bencoolen ; his spirit yearning in constant desire, To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought, He returned to England in September 1691, a poorer man than he had left it, except in knowledge and... | |
| |