 The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: . The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.  Translations - Page 78by George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - 1863 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1903 - 1362 pages
...unknown. That was the impulse which stirred old Ulysses to set forth once more upon his travels. " For my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and...stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash as down. It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew." "It may... | |
 | 1859 - 682 pages
...In 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1861 - 858 pages
...warnings and summons to nobler exertion, if they choose to heed them. " The lights begin to twinkle on the rocks, The long day wanes, the slow moon climbs, the deep Moans round with many voices." But they only talk about embarking, and do not embark. Odysseus, or Columbus, or De Oama wooes their... | |
 | 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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