 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 myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star,...  Schools of ancient philosophy - Pagina 48door Schools - 1799Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1856 - 834 pagina’s
...met. Vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this grey spirit yearning with desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." OUR TOUR IN THE INTERIOR OF THE CRIMEA. IMMEDIATELY after the arrival of the news of peace, we determined... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pagina’s
...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,...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle— Well-loved of me,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pagina’s
...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,...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — . Well-loved of me,... | |
 | 1844 - 714 pagina’s
...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,...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me,... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pagina’s
...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,...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — 1845.] [July, Well... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...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,...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1845 - 258 pagina’s
...forget, that it is to these early thinkers that we owe our modern science. Had there not been many a " Gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge,...star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought,"* -we should not have been able to travel on the secure terrestrial path of slow inductive science. The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pagina’s
...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,...star, . Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pagina’s
...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,...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought, This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well loved of me,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pagina’s
...more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three sums to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge,...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me,... | |
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