Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:... The Ship-dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise - Page 31by Albert Bigelow Paine - 1910 - 393 pagesFull view - About this book
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 630 pages
...thought.' Therefore will he quit again his patrimonial dominions, and say to his brave comrades — ' My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.' So likewise our hardy De Foe, after reposing for a while in ' easy circumstances ' at Newington, ventures... | |
| 1859 - 682 pages
...haste was climbing up the eastern hill, Full envious that Night so long his place did fill. (29.) For my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. (30.) Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied... | |
| William Chambers - 1859 - 600 pages
...thought.' Therefore will he quit again his patrimonial dominions, and say to his brave comrades — ' My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until 1 die.' So likewise our hardy De Foe, after reposing for a while in ' easy circumstances' at Newington,... | |
| 1859 - 522 pages
...naval service of Great Britain. like the Ulysses of Dante and of Tennyson, they were bound — " To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars" — until they died. Tt is all the more our duty to acknowledge that they did the work they were sont to do.... | |
| 1865 - 810 pages
...these hot, melancholy forests. Give me your hand, my boy. We are vowed to one another henceforward. ' It may be that the gulfs will wash us down ; It may...isles, And see the great Achilles, whom, we knew.' " I cast a look of gratitude at Tom Williams. " But," I said, " what will Trevittick say ? " " Trevittick,"... | |
| John Brown - 1860 - 88 pages
...first discoverer of a North- West Passage, . . . the one thing left undone." * They were bound " To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars," until they died, and " it is all the more our duty to acknowledge that they did the work they were sent to... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides ; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides ; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1862 - 892 pages
...mechanics." "/fish." "Good. Let ns put out. ' Where lies the port; what vessel puffs her sail : come, my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the western stars until I die.'" "Well," answered Henry, meekly, "I'll get the lines ready." In an hour the Andromeda was plowing down... | |
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