 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
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 312 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 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. 1296 There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: there gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,... | |
 | 1864 - 520 Seiten
...gloom his mind itself, and the truth which it enshriued. Reverent be our leave-taking of this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. § * The Tragedy of Galileo Galilei. By Samuel Brown, 1850. t Athenaum, Ko. 1166. f Noctes Ambrosianio,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 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...by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 404 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...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — AVell-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people,... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 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...thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom 1 leave the sceptre and the isle — 'Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 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...utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Tclemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This... | |
 | Margaret T. Downing - 1867 - 394 Seiten
...Little remains; but every hour is saved 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 So follow knowledge like a shining star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. • • We sometimes... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 402 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... | |
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