 Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It...  Notes and Queries - Page 1911879Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...inaction and resolving to set forth again in quest of new adventures. " Come, my friends, *Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting...down ; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew ; " &c. JEneas bearing Ancluses from the flames of Troy. CHAPTER... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 326 pages
...deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends. 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Fash off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding...down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides ; and though We are not now... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - America - 1855 - 738 pages
...DISCOVERY THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS SCHEME. -" My purpose holds To Bail beyond the sunset and the batha Of all the western stars until I die. It may be that...down — It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles." — TERHYSON'S Ulysses. "But thee, Columbus, how can I but remember? but loue? but admire.* Sweetly... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 pages
...not often surpassed by ttte poets of this world : " My purpose hold* To sail beyond the (unset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may bo that the gulf will wash us down, It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting...down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that... | |
 | East India college - 1856 - 480 pages
...among their greatest productions. Observe the simplicity with which Tennyson touches on these — " for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and...down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew." There is a simple pathos in that expression — It is a sort... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1856 - 344 pages
...the old, much-enduring Mariner King is again panting for untried dangers and undiscovered lands: — "My purpose holds, To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die." Tennyson, with his fine artistic instinct, saw that the idea of Ulysses at rest was an incongruous... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1856 - 358 pages
...thought, and has chosen rather to picture him journeying ever onwards toward infinity or death — " It may be, that the gulfs will wash us down — It may be, we shall reach the happy isles. And see the great Achilles, whom we knew ." And with breathless interest, and... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1856 - 812 pages
...and indomitable mariner-king panted for untried dangers and undiscovered lands. His purpose was " to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until he died." Thus actuated, man is lifted to a higher platform of observation, whence he may read the... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Civilization - 1856 - 460 pages
...and indomitable mariner-king panted for untried dangers and undiscovered lands. His purpose was " to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until he died." Thus actuated, man is lifted to a higher platform of observation whence he may read the book... | |
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