 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,...  The Cornell Era - Page 2751906Full view - About this book
 | Schools - 1799 - 198 pages
...for 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... | |
 | England - 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 Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...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,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1844 - 714 pages
...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,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...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 — 1845.] [July, Well... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...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 - Philosophers - 1845 - 258 pages
...these 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...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,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...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,... | |
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