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 myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star,... Blackwood's Magazine - Página 3891856Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Schools - 1799 - 198 páginas
...the 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 Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 páginas
...; and 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 páginas
...; and 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,... | |
| 1844 - 714 páginas
...things; and 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,... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1845 - 258 páginas
...early 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... | |
| 1845 - 732 páginas
...; and 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 — 1845.] [July, Well... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 páginas
...; and 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 páginas
...; and 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,... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 páginas
...; and 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 - 1851 - 290 páginas
...; and 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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