 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little,... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is...move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnisVd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on (life Were all too little,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 pages
...delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that 1 have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'...move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end. To rust unburnish d, not to shine Ln use ! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little,... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 482 pages
...to be up and doing. In words, such as those ascribed by Tennyson to Ulysses, he is ready to say : " How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! " Ineffable is the pity with which he looks on brainsick loungers... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - 1879 - 238 pages
...Ulysses " is founded on a passage in the " Divina Commedia " of Dante. In the following lines— " How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd,...not to shine in use, As tho' to breathe were life," there seems to be a remarkable resemblance of thought and expression to a speech of Ulysses, in Shakespeare's... | |
 | PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...sea-king, strong as a fishing-boat that has battled long with tide and storm, spurns the idea of rest. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd,...not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life. He is far above the weakness of disguising his pride, or pretending not to know that he is a man of... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 464 pages
...sea-king, strong as a fishingboat that has battled long with tide and storm, spurns the idea of rest. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd,...not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life. He is far above the weakness of disguising his pride, or pretending not to know that he is a man of... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when l move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburmsh'd, not to shine iu nee! As tho' to breathe were life. Life. piled on life Were all too little,... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades «, Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too... | |
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And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro... 
