 not necessary to turn to fiction for such noble lives. They are being lived all about us. Our own Nathan Smith Davis has not only always yearned "to follow knowledge like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought," but has also followed...  The Woman's Medical Journal - Page 41902Full view - About this book
 | Schools - 1799 - 198 pages
...people of God, could hardly be presented than in the instance of this " Gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like, a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."* All his conclusions terminated in the vague conjectures of unsatisfied intellectual desire for a better... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1842 - 490 pages
...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, 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 pages
...vile it were ? or some three suns to store and hoard myself, \nd this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a 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— •Veil-loved of me,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1845 - 258 pages
...thinkers that we owe our modern science. Had there not been many a " Gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking 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 (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...it were ?\ğr some three suns to store and hoard myself, (\nd this gray spirit yearning in desire lo follow knowledge, like a 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,... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1860 - 310 pages
...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, 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 - 1846 - 254 pages
...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, 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,... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1850 - 302 pages
...problem which the next generation was to overthrow. It is a picture of " Spirits yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."! We may begin with the teaching of Pythagoras. His own history is enshrined in legends, which impart... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1850 - 306 pages
...problem which the next generation was to overthrow. It is a picture of " Spirits yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."f We may begin with the teaching of Pythagoras. His own history is enshrined in legends, which... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pages
...vile it were For some three sums to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a 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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