 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 - Сторінка 257автори: Public school series - 1874Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | East India college - 1856
...all the relics of his once matchless strength. Again, the same spirit is visible in those lines — " this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge,...star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." This has been the spirit that has actuated our greatest men. Newton, Bacon, and others, have all owed their... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 801 стор.
...forget that it is to these early thinkers that we owe our modern philosophy. Had there not been many a " Gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge,...star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought,"! * Preserved by Sextus Empiricus, Hypot. Pyrrlutn. i. 224; and quoted •1s0 by Bitter, i. 448. t Teunyson.... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 801 стор.
...forget that it is to these early thinkers that we owe our modern philosophy. 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,"t \ve should not have been able to travel on the secure terrestrial path of slow inductive... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 675 стор.
...forget that it is to these early thinkers that we owe our modern philosophy. 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,"t * Preserved by Sextus Empirieus, Hypot. Pyrrhun. i. 224; and quoted also by Bitter, i. 443.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1858 - 379 стор.
...me Little remains : but every hour is saved ' From that eternal silence, something more, A briuger of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns...knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of Iraman thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859
...shine in use ! ' He counts it vile to ' store and hoard' himself, while his ' gray spirit' is still ' yearning in desire to follow knowledge, like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought.' Therefore will he quit again his patrimonial dominions, and say to his brave comrades — ' My purpose... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1859 - 576 стор.
...shine in use !' He counts it vile to ' store and hoard' himself, while his ' gray spirit' is still ' yearning in desire to follow knowledge, like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought.' Therefore will he quit again his patrimonial dominions, and say to his brave comrades — ' My purpose... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 288 стор.
...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...some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of... | |
 | Gertrude Melton (fict.name.) - 1860 - 208 стор.
...his hope of one day attaining to name and fame — he had thought and studied this year, had tried " To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." He had other hopes and other aims, and — he was not miserable ; though looking back to the dream... | |
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