...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...isle— Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful...

...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...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. 588. Is this a dagger, which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee....

...all the relics of his once matchless strength. Again, the same spirit is visible in those lines — " this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge,...star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." This has been the spirit that has actuated our greatest men. Newton, Bacon, and others, have all owed their...

...forget that it is to these early thinkers that we owe our modern philosophy. Had there not been many a " Gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge,...star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought,"! * Preserved by Sextus Empiricus, Hypot. Pyrrlutn. i. 224; and quoted •1s0 by Bitter, i. 448. t Teunyson....

...forget that it is to these early thinkers that we owe our modern philosophy. 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,"t * Preserved by Sextus Empirieus, Hypot. Pyrrhun. i. 224; and quoted also by Bitter, i. 443....

...forget that it is to these early thinkers that we owe our modern philosophy. 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,"t \ve should not have been able to travel on the secure terrestrial path of slow inductive...

...that eternal silence, something more, A briuger of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning...knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of Iraman thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved...

...shine in use !' He counts it vile to ' store and hoard' himself, while his ' gray spirit' is still ' yearning in desire to follow knowledge, like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought.' Therefore will he quit again his patrimonial dominions, and say to his brave comrades — ' My purpose...

...shine in use ! ' He counts it vile to ' store and hoard' himself, while his ' gray spirit' is still ' yearning in desire to follow knowledge, like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought.' Therefore will he quit again his patrimonial dominions, and say to his brave comrades — ' My purpose...

...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...isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful...