We fill ourselves with ancient learning.
What do we know of nature or of ourselves?
(2) To emphasize a noun or pronoun; for example,—
The great globe itself ... shall dissolve.—Shakespeare.
Threats to all;
To you yourself, to us, to every one.
—Id.
Who would not sing for Lycidas! he knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
—Milton.
NOTE.—In such sentences the pronoun is sometimes omitted, and the reflexive modifies the pronoun understood; for example,—
Only itself can inspire whom it will.—Emerson.
My hands are full of blossoms plucked before, Held dead within them till myself shall die.—E. B. Browning.
As if it were thyself that's here, I shrink with pain.—Wordsworth.