 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...  Primer First (-Fourth, Sixth) reader - Pagina 257di Public school series - 1874Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Joseph John Murphy - 1873 - 532 pagine
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pagine
...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...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 pagine
...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...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pagine
...but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vilo it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself,...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pagine
...on (life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains : but every hour is saved From tliat eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; an'd vile it were For some three suns to Btore and hoard my(aelf, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1876 - 434 pagine
...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pagine
...Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains : bnt every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labor, by slow prndence to make mild A rugged people,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 pagine
...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...spirit yearning in desire To follow Knowledge like a sink ing star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Tclemachus, To whom... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 392 pagine
...that eternal silence, something more, A hringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three snus to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning...follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the ntmost honnd of hnman thonght. This le my son, mine own Telemachns, To whom I leave the sceptre and... | |
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