 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1893 - 666 pages
...having in some measure restored Sir John Sherbrooke to health, he was exactly the type of man to feel How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use. entirely new career — that of a Colonial Governor. In bis diary... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1894 - 554 pages
...always allures to _action — the image of the exact opposite of the temper of mind of the Lotos-eaters. Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that...move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end. To rust unbumish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little,... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - Readers - 1893 - 248 pages
...Cox, "ABit of Possible History " (meeting of David and Homer). — EE Hale. DRILL IN SLOW MOVEMENT. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use. The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : The deep moans round... | |
 | Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 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...rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to brenihe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains : but every... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 388 pages
...of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' igö 197 Gleams that nntravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when...make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! Аз tho' to breathe were life. Life pil'd on Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 802 pages
...of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' 196 197 Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades...move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust nnbnrnish'd, not to shine in use I As tho' to breathe were life. Life pil'd on Were all too little,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 630 pages
...am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1896 - 232 pages
...than this dead life That swoons away on land.1 1 The lines recall Tennyson's Ulysses when he says, — 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. LITERATURE IN ENGLAND BEFORE CHAUCER. 29 Cynewulfs greatest poem is The Christ, in which he tells in... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - Education - 1901 - 1054 pages
...experience is an arch wherethro1 Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rest unburnished, not to shine in use, As tho" to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 684 pages
...am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when...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,... | |
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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... 
