 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
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1889 - 374 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 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 30 To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 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... | |
 | 1881 - 514 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...star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." This, I say, would have sounded strange to Greek ears ; but there is not a grander passage in modern verse.... | |
 | 1881 - 654 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." strange to Greek ears ; but there is not a grander passage in modem verse. And more than this : though... | |
 | 1881 - 504 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." strange to Greek ears ; but there is not a grander passage in modern verse. And more than this : though... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 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 To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Heyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the... | |
 | James M. Buchanan, Geoffrey Brennan, Hartmut Kliemt, Robert D. Tollison - 2002 - 602 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. . . .Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work... | |
 | Graham Priest - 2002 - 344 Seiten
...contradicted oneself. 8 Miller (1969), p. 134. 9 Pears and McGuinness (1961), p. 3. Part 5 Post terminum And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulyises 15 Heidegger and the grammar of being 15.1 Heidegger and grammar In... | |
 | Henry Jenkins III, Jane Shattuc, Tara McPherson - 2003 - 776 Seiten
...knowledge and immoderate experience, his project is that of modernism: . . . fcannot rest from travel . . . And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. ... for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I... | |
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