 | Robert Browning - 1896 - 566 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 unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Tho' the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the virtue (we issue join) How strive you ? De te,... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1897 - 484 pages
...scarcely have admitted this — at least with regard to God. 1 C/. Browning's The Statue and the Bust— " The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in view was a vice, I say." See Jones's Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher, pp. Hi— 118.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1897 - 334 pages
...staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : 'And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost K Is — the unlit 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, fatula. PORPHYRIA'S LOVER.... | |
 | Boston Browning Society - 1897 - 518 pages
...Yes, it 's true that the figure in ' The Statue and the Bust' tells the tale, And the sin I impnte to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. And that 'sa fine image also in ' Paracelsus ' — If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1898 - 444 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 —...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 ? Dete,fabula! 250 PORPHYRIA'S... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1898 - 424 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 —...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 PORPHYEIA'S LOVER.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1898 - 514 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 —...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 ? Dete,fabula! 250 PORPHYRIA'S... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1898 - 264 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 —...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 ! 286 The Statue... | |
 | 1898 - 588 pages
...curse is upon it. True life, of body or of soul, is conditioned on activity. Just to be lazy is to die. "The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. Tho the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the virtue (we issue join). How strive you?" Beware... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1899 - 460 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 —...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 PORPHYRIA'S LOVER.... | |
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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. 
