Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul! Dramatis Personæ - Page 81de Robert Browning - 1864 - 250 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...year) possesses mind and body in a magnificent vigor." " Let us not always say, ' spite of this flesh I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole...soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul.'" This world is interesting to Browning as being man's dwellingplace and school. He mourns that " too... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 562 pages
...project thy soul on its lone way ? ' yet there follows immediately the other side with equal truth ' Let us not always say " Spite of this flesh to-day...soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul." ' We believe that a conscientious study of Mr. Browning's various hints concerning the relation between... | |
| Bertha Maria freifrau von Marenholtz-Bülow - 1879 - 216 pages
...intention ; the following lines of Mr. Browning's seem to me to form a perfect motto to the whole system : Let us not always say, " Spite of this flesh to-day...soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul. " Therefore I summon age To grant 's youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term... | |
| 1909 - 752 pages
...and give life to all which it touches; "a stepping-stone," as it were, "to higher things." Then,— " Let us not always say, 'Spite of this flesh to-day...soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul.'" Examination Questions for Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's Bunker Hill Oration MAUD ELMA... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...attract not only to the reading but to the study of it. Hero are the lessons of advancing years : " Let us not always say, ' Spite of this flesh to-day,...nor soul helps flesh more now, than flesh helps soul 1 ' • * * • • Grow old along with me ! The best is yet to be, Tho last of life, for which the... | |
| Robert Browning - 1881 - 1006 pages
...finite his •) infinity" (Bordello, p. 203). Life may be over-spiritual as well as t over-worldly. " Let us cry, ' All good things are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul ! ' " 2 The figure the poet employs in the Ring and the Book to illustrate the art process, may be... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 316 pages
...angel, if the angel is to come at all. A large, rich, full, all-round manhood and life, in which— " All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more now, than flesh helps soul," will give the angel yet to be the best chance of his outgrowth from the man. The poems in which these... | |
| English poets - 1883 - 364 pages
...Pulled ever to the earth, still yearns for rest: Would we some prize might hold To match those manifold Let us not always say " Spite of this flesh to-day...soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul! " Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term... | |
| 1883 - 378 pages
...prize might hold To match those manifold Possessions of the brute, — gain most, as we did best ! Let us not always say " Spite of this flesh to-day...soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul ! " Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1883 - 382 pages
...did best! Let us not always say, I strove, made head, gained ground upon "Spite of this flesh to-day the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry,...soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!" Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term: Thence... | |
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