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" That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. "
A General View of the History of the English Bible - Page 129
de Brooke Foss Westcott - 1872 - 359 pages
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 pages
...failure overleaps the bounds of low success." We may recall, too, the words of a greater poet — " The low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. The low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit ; The high man, aiming at a million,...
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The Living Age, Volume 236

1903 - 848 pages
...student's "soul, hydroptic with a sacred thirst" —it is inimitable. "That low man," says Browning, That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; That high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Professor Maitland has lately applied...
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Notes and Queries

1889 - 564 pages
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Numéros 1 à 50

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...not? Worthy of the sepulture to which they bore him so proudly. And this is the moral of the tale :— That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses...
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Men and Women

Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " he answered " Yes. " Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 31

1856 - 538 pages
...earth's failure: " Wilt thou trust death or not?" he answered " Yes. " Hence with life's pale lure!" That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 6

1856 - 1492 pages
...next, Let the world mind him ! This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows It. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, In...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 31

1856 - 542 pages
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not? " he answered " Yes. " Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and docs it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding...
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Fragments of Criticism

John Nichol - 1860 - 258 pages
...passionate heart ; a forlorn hope of all grades and times, failing only because it aimed too high ? '* That low man seeks a little thing to do — Sees it,...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Neither can we, till after a long cycle of events, make success a test of national virtue. Power may...
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Fragments of Criticism

John Nichol - 1860 - 256 pages
...grades and times, failing only because it aimed too high? " That low man seeks a little thing to do— r Sees it, and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Neither can we, till after a long cycle of events, make success a test of national virtue. Power may...
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