 | James Welton - 1911 - 554 pages
...Asolando: Reverie. " 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." 1 Yes, "the unlit lamp" of imagination means "the ungirt loin" of noble effort. Yet there is a temptation... | |
 | James Welton - 1911 - 542 pages
...Awlando: Reverie. " 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."1 Yes, "the unlit lamp" of imagination means "the ungirt loin " of noble effort. Yet there is... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1911 - 384 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 ! 250 LOVE IN... | |
 | George Herbert Mair - 1911 - 262 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." All the other main ideas of his poetry fit with perfect consistency on to his... | |
 | Loren Benjamin Macdonald - 1911 - 240 pages
...the price? 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 lamps and the ungirt loin, ***** How strive you? From all this it must appear that the idealism that... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1912 - 480 pages
...it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : 345 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 ! *5<» 402 PORPHYRIA'S... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1912 - 870 pages
...at good interest in some stock of effort or share of duty, through somebody on an exalted 'Change. ' The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.' Sadly he quoted that. His mood had swiftly altered — a symptom of instability which is characteristic... | |
 | New York Browning Society - 1912 - 136 pages
...lays down the doctrine that irresolution, dallying, inaction, are absolutely fatal to soul-growth. " The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost, Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin." We see it once more in that subtlest of all his art-poems, " Andrea del Sarto," in which the pathetic... | |
 | James Lindsay - 1912 - 272 pages
...that — " a man contend to the uttermost For his life's prize, be it what it will." And again — " The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin." Browning's optimism is grounded in no mere idealism, for none has more deeply sounded the real fulness... | |
 | 1924 - 978 pages
...lost it for ever. and of The Statue and the Bust : 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 ! It is better... | |
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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. 
