| William Swinton - 1887 - 686 pages
...wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades 2° Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished,...piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me 15 Little remains ; but every hour is saved From that eternal silence — something more, A bringer... | |
| Edward John Hardy - 1887 - 300 pages
...unburnish'd, not to shine in use 1 As tho' to breathe was life. Life piled on life Were all too little : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence,...something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were To store and hoard myself yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star Beyond the utmost... | |
| Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 344 pages
...where thro' Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pages
...wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To ru.st unburnished,...saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringcr of new things : and vile it were Fur some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray... | |
| Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 402 pages
...where through Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever as I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished,...to me Little remains : but every hour is saved From the eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 pages
...carried," 1 — but as Homer makes Ulysses say, " How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rest unburnished ; not to shine in use — as though to breathe were life 1 " Goethe tells us that at thirty he resolved " to work out life no longer by halves, but in all its... | |
| David Boyd - 1890 - 512 pages
...good, honest, needed work, Mr. L_ Meeker was an abundant partaker. He would have felt it " dull to rest unburnished, not to shine in use, as though to breathe were life." Knowing these financial straits in which Mr. Meeker was environed, Mr. Greeley loaned him $1,000 with... | |
| David Boyd - 1890 - 506 pages
...good, honest, needed work, Mr. Meeker was an abundant partaker. He would have felt it " dull to rest unburnished, not to shine in use, as though to breathe were life." Knowing these financial straits in which Mr. Meeker was environed, Mr. Greeley loaned him $1,000 with... | |
| Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1891 - 208 pages
...royal armoury would be bright and burnished. This at least would be a change, for the better. " How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! " Isocrates long ago expressed an opinion that the men of wealth and leisure should be the servants... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 pages
...carried," l — but as Homer makes Ulysses say, " How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rest unburnished ; not to shine in use — as though to breathe were life ! " Goethe tells us that at thirty he resolved " to work out life no longer by halves, but in all its... | |
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