| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 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 - 1862 - 698 pages
...experience is an 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, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too... | |
| 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... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 312 pages
...always attended. CHATTER IV. EXAMPLES AND ENCOURAGEMENTS FROM THE LIVES OF EMINENT HEN OF LETTERS. 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. . . . Some work of noble note may yet be done. TENNYSON 1 . IT is observable that many of cur most... | |
| George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - English literature - 1863 - 224 pages
...experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever as I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! Quid prodest ? sterilis si languet inertia regni, Adque Lares tacitos, effoeta conjuge, leges Metior... | |
| 1863 - 224 pages
...arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever as I move. _ How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! II Quid prodcst ? sterilis si languet inertia regni, Adque Lares tacitos, effceta conjuge, leges... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 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... | |
| 1864 - 368 pages
...have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleam those far distant seals, whose outlines fade For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end To rust on pension, not to draw full pay, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To lead the Tories, like... | |
| English literature - 1864 - 496 pages
...subject in a far more imaginative manner, and the only idea imitated from the Italian is in the lines : "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use, As though to breathe wore lifa"; and those in which he speaks of... | |
| John Bruce Norton - English poetry - 1865 - 394 pages
...am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch where thro' Gleams the untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move." — TENNYSON. XXIX. " Commend not a man for his beanty ; ncither abhor a man for his ontward appearance.... | |
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