 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...  Keats to Morris - Page 304by Rossiter Johnson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | 1881 - 504 pages
...to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains : hut every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." strange to Greek ears ; but there is not a grander passage in modern verse. And more than this : though... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...shine in use ! 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...in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Heyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1882 - 432 pages
...shine in use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on lift Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains : but every hour is saved From that...is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceplre and the isle — Well loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labor, by slow prudence to make... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 174 pages
...unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As iho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, . . . Little remains : but every hour is saved From that...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. ******* There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 74 pages
...uset As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on, life Were all too little, . . . Little remains r but every hour is saved From that eternal silence,...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. ******# There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...shine in use ! 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...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a smking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. man ULYSSES. This is my son, mine own Telemachus,... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 632 pages
...shine in use ! 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...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.' * I will now refer by the following passage to the evils of custom considered generally: 'The despotism... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 634 pages
...to me Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A brinjjer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns...sinking: star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought .' J I will now refer by the following passage to the evils of cost-' -re considered generally : '... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1885 - 526 pages
...thp' to breathe were life. Life , piled on life Were all too little, and of^onc to me Little remainj: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence,...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a.sinkingstar, Beyond the utmost bound of human on, mine own Telemachus, \ To whom I leave the sceptre... | |
 | Stephen Salisbury - 1885 - 172 pages
...to pause, to make an end, To rust unbnrnishud, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life. and vile it were For some three suns to store and...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." Nathaniel Paine, Esq., said: I cannot refrain at this time from expressing my high appreciation of... | |
| |
