 | Edward John Hardy - Conduct of life - 1890 - 300 pages
...greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone. . . . Yet all experience is an arch where thro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades...unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe was life. Life piled on life Were all too little : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Frederick James Rowe, William Trego Webb - 1890 - 182 pages
...met ; /fet all experience is an arch wherethro" Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades 20 For ever and for ever when I move/' How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unbnrnishM, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little,... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 402 pages
...experience is an arch where through Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever as 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... | |
 | 1890 - 332 pages
...mind. TEXT.— This God is our God forever and ever. Psalm xlvili, 1U. LIFE IS MORE THAN BREATHING. How dull it is to pause, to make an end ; To rust, untarnished, not to shine iii use : As tho' to breathe were life. Alfred Tennysun. April 17. PROVERB.—... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1891 - 336 pages
...experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravel'd world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rest unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - Great Britain - 1891 - 208 pages
...the royal armoury would be bright and burnished. This at least would be a change, for the better. " How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! " Isocrates long ago expressed an opinion that the men of wealth... | |
 | John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 408 pages
...score or more of the world's great singers, but he does not exhaust the list. In Ulysses we read — 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. The idea is old enough. Massinger wrote in The Maid of Honour — Virtue, if not in action, is a vice.... | |
 | John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 384 pages
...score or more of the world's great singers, but he does not exhaust the list. In Ulysses we read — 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. The idea is old enough. Massinger wrote in The Maid of Honour — Virtue, if not in action, is a vice.... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...bee / Improve each shining hour, / And gather honey all the day / From every opening flower. Watts. 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. Tennyson. How enormous appear the crimes we have not committed ! Mme,... | |
 | Carl Kalisch - 1893 - 302 pages
...Rærmen. Han kan ikke hvile fra sine Rejser — meget har han set og lært, men mere staar tilbage: »How dull it is to pause, to make an end. To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!« Det, det gælder om i Livet, er at stræbe, søge, finde og aldrig give tabt — i Hjemmet kan han... | |
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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... 
