 | 1903 - 848 pages
...through." If you choose to play a game, yon should fight for the prize to the uttermost. The sin he imputes to each frustrate ghost: Is— the unlit lamp, and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was sin, I say; You of the virtue (we issue join) How strive you? DC te fabula! That raises the question... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost "Was, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a crime, I say. You of the virtue, (we issue join) How strive you ? De te, fabula ! LOVE IN A LIFE.... | |
 | 1856 - 430 pages
...staked w«s lost As surely as if It were lawful coin : And the sin 1 impute to each frustrate ghost Was, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. Though the end in sight was a crime, 1 say. You of th« virtue, (we issue join) How strive you! l>it*,/abulal This is a volume... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 800 pages
...staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Was, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a crime, I You of the virtue, (we issue join) How strive you ? De te, fabula I Here is the bold... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the...lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the virtue, (we issue join), How strive you ? De te, fabula ! BISHOP BLOUGRAItfS... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin ; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Was the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a crime, I say. You of the virtue (we issue join), How strive you ? De tc, fabula ! LOCKSLEY HALL.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...be it what it will ! The counter, our lovers staked, was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the...lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the virtue (we issue join) How strive you ? De te, fabula I LOVE AMONG THE... | |
 | 1876 - 564 pages
...staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin ; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Was the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a crime, I say. You of the virtue, (we issue join) How strive you ? De te, fabula ! The Pied Piper... | |
 | Marcus Dods - 1879 - 192 pages
...proper value cf energy ; and criticise these lines: " And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost 1s the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say." 10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius,... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...the Bust : " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! ***** And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin."2 And again in the concentrated and moving pathos of The Lost Leader : " Best fight on well,... | |
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The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. 
