 | 1872 - 1200 pages
...on the rest of His handiwork — returned him again His Creation's approval .... I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work, — all's love, yet all's law." But another source of poetic power now demands attention. A country, with its wild and stern scenery,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...approval or censure : I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work — all 's love, yet all 's law ! Now I lay down the judgeship he lent me. Each...knowledge ? confounded it shrivels at wisdom laid bare. Have I forethought ? how purblind, how blank, to the Infinite care ! " Do I task any faculty... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...rest of His handwork — returned Him again His creation's approval or censure : I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work — all's love,...knowledge ? confounded it shrivels at wisdom laid bare. Have I forethought ? how purblind, how blank, to the infinite care ! Do I task any faculty highest,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...or censure : I spoke as I saw. ' " I report, as a man may of God's work — all 's love, yet all 's law. " Now I lay down the judgeship he lent me. Each...knowledge ? confounded it shrivels at Wisdom laid bare. " Have I forethought? how purblind, how blank, to the Infinite Care ! " Do I task any faculty... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1876 - 360 pages
...creation's approval or censure : I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work — all 's love, yet all's law! Now I lay down the judgeship...knowledge ? confounde-d it shrivels at wisdom laid bare. Have I forethought ? how purblind, how blank, to the Infinite care ! In the kind 1 imagined,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1879 - 324 pages
...approval or censure : I spoke as I saw. " I report, as a man may of God's work — all 's love, yet all 's law. " Now I lay down the judgeship he lent me. Each...knowledge ? confounded it shrivels at Wisdom laid bare. " Have I forethought? how purblind, how blank, to the " Do I task any faculty highest, to image... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...I report, as a man may of God's work — all 's love, yet all 's law. Now I lay down the jud^eship f bare. Have I forethought ? how purblind, how blank, to the Infinite Care ! Do I task any faculty highest,... | |
 | Benjamin Wills Newton - 1882 - 700 pages
...God, I will say, with Browning, — I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may, of God's work — all 's Love, yet all's Law. Now I lay down the judgeship...Him, has gained an abyss where a dewdrop was asked.'" (Preface, p. xxiii.) There is an empty mystic ambiguity about these lines : but whatever else they... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1883 - 308 pages
...the rest of his handwork — returned him again His creation's approval or censure: I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work — all's love,...knowledge ? confounded it shrivels at wisdom laid bare. M Have I forethought ? how purblind, how blank, to the Infinite care ! Do I task any faculty... | |
 | Henry Drummond - 1883 - 456 pages
...God, I will say, with Browning, — " I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work — alFs Love, yet all's Law. Now I lay down the judgeship...Him, has gained an abyss where a dewdrop was asked." CONTENTS. PAGE PREFACE v INTRODUCTION i BIOGENESIS 59 DEGENERATION 95 GROWTH 121 DEATH 141 MORTIFICATION... | |
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I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke: I, a work of God's hand for that purpose, received in my brain And pronounced on the rest of his handwork — returned him again His creation's approval or censure: I spoke as I saw: I report,... 
