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... Poems - Seite 31von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 261 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Marlborough coll - 1860 - 310 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| William Allingham - 1860 - 316 Seiten
...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 - 236 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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 - 500 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
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