 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 - Page 31by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Schools - 1799 - 198 pages
...of that rest which remains for the people of God, could hardly be presented than in the instance of this " Gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge...star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."* All his conclusions terminated in the vague conjectures of unsatisfied intellectual desire for a better... | |
 | 1849 - 792 pages
...wherethrough Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margi n fades For ever and for ever when I move. " This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave...isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the... | |
 | 1856 - 834 pages
...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 (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...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...— . 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... | |
 | 1844 - 714 pages
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...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...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — 1845.] [July, Well loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by sluw prudence to make mild... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1845 - 258 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...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...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people,... | |
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