As though 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... The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 402by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904Full view - About this book
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 750 pages
...it were to pause, to make an end, To rust ,iu inn ni -li. . !, not to shine in use, As t ii .11 .-h to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little. I feel that, Heaven knows ; and yet I fain would follow love, if that might be. That sweet winning... | |
| William Allingham - 1860 - 316 pages
...fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As though 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,... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1860 - 310 pages
...¿ITT' ¿тг' àviévai те, 1. -fech. Agam. 1398. To rust unburnish'd, not to 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 eternal silence, something more,... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1860 - 310 pages
...¿«гт' ¿тг" àviévai тс, 1. -lisch. Agam. 1398. To rust unburnish'd, not to 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 eternal silence, something more,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...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,...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,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...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 sliine in use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one... | |
| John Leaf - 1861 - 500 pages
...untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when he moves." He cannot rest from travel — " How dull it is to pause, to make an end. To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use | " He counts it vile to " store and hoard " himself, while his "... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fade^ Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished,...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,... | |
| Robert Herbert Story - 1862 - 574 pages
...prolonged life lay in cessation from all fatiguing duty — he must give over preaching altogether. " How dull it is to pause — to make an end — To rust unburnished — not to shine in use." He felt it keenly, and still hoped that, by careful modulation of voice, and avoidance of excitement,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 pages
...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...were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains . T>ut every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more,... | |
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