 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: In Two Volumes - Seite 31von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph John Murphy - 1873 - 532 Seiten
...that for our familiar knowledge of this truth we have to thank the meditations and the toils of many a "Spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost verge of human thought." 1 The truth that in nature there is an intelligible order— a Cosmos—is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 200 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... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 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 pcople, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 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 Telemachlls, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well loved of me, discerning to fulfil This... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 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 Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus. To whom I leave the... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Heaton - 1874 - 392 Seiten
...indignation of Savonarola. But art alone was insufficient food for this great spirit, " Yearning with desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." In all branches of literature and science his universal' genius loved to test its powers ; in all he... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 356 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 Seiten
...that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vilo 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 I02 PARNASSUS. Beyond the utmost bound of luiman thought. This is m у son, mine own Telemachus, To... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1876 - 434 Seiten
...mental 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... | |
| |
