 | Robert Browning - 1888 - 326 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 v PORPHYRIES LOVER... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 pages
...Pecca fortiter, writes — The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. ' Dis Aliter Vituin and Respectability are variations on the same theme. Love, then, in life has sovereign... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 218 pages
...own indolence. " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will 1 And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin," applies to poets as well as to ordinary people. The poet is for the time being a viceroy representing... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 344 pages
...prize, be it what it will I 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. PORPHYRIA'S LOVER.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 336 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! PORPHYRIA'S LOVER.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1890 - 588 pages
...existence. ' Let a man contend to the uttermost t 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.' Without strenuous endeavour, we are ' left in God's contempt apart, With ghastly smooth life, dead... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 pages
...*In a Balcony. 7 Bishop Blougram?s Apology. " 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. " l Here it is not as Stedman supposes 8 — Stedman, who thinks The Ring and the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 328 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 I £one in a... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1891 - 422 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, fabida ! PORPHYRIA'S LOVER.... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - 1891 - 436 pages
...Statue and 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. In the midst of strenuous endeavour or of patient suffering, the lesson of life, the lesson of love,... | |
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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. 
