 | Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1907 - 376 pages
...it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the siii I impute to each frustrate ghost 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,fabula I THE RING AND THE... | |
 | Helen Cecilia De Silver Abbott Michael, Helen Abbott Michael - 1907 - 448 pages
...man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! " The sin he imputes — "To each frustrate ghost Is — the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say." In this poem Browning carries out the idea of Truth to self to the extreme verge... | |
 | Arthur Cecil Pigou - 1908 - 160 pages
...non-murderer is also a coward: 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. T: in t*iT~: i.-..~r~=i ?«cii *~ ~! £ ^^ JJE; if I ~.:^.f ^ vdl »T! ; ^ _i_i ;-. ^i^-... | |
 | 1908 - 554 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, fabida! Robert Browning.... | |
 | 1909 - 338 pages
...prize, be 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, 1 say. You of the virtue (we issue join), How strive you? De te, fabulal a R. BROWNING.... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1909 - 448 pages
...lawful coin, (they failed by the supreme test of action, without reference to the stamp of the act) : 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. And then Browning challenges every one of us to reply by the test of contention... | |
 | Harold Brian Steele - 1909 - 58 pages
...toad-stool lie, Its pink-flushed gills frost blasted in the grass, Poor broken being of the field. SIN. "And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin." — Browning. Sin? 'So sin it be, if sin be what Ye who succeed pronounce on us who fail. Sin? Methinks... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pages
...it will ! The counter pur lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin 1 ! Otti. was a vice, I say. You of the virtue (we issue join) How strive you ? De te, fabula .' 1855. " CHILDE... | |
 | Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster - 1910 - 424 pages
...whim, adopting a policy of procrastination. Browning in "The Statue and the Bust" has these strong "The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin." For very pity's sake, my friend, if you cannot otherwise secure the girl you want, fight for her. Make... | |
 | Caroline Hazard - 1910 - 232 pages
...problems, — problems of defeat, — problems of fatigue, — problems arising from a failure of courage. The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. We have all felt it. How can we always be girded for the fray ? How can we always keep a watch upon... | |
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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. 
