 Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.  Papers - Page 402de Browning Society (London, England) - 1881Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1882 - 612 pages
...restore them one day perfected and completed ; a God who looks not to results, but to effort — " All I could never be All men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." (Rabbi ben Ezra.) This intense faith would in itself afford ample consolation under the sting of failure,... | |
 | 1882 - 520 pages
...restore them one day perfected and completed ; a God who looks not to results, but to effort — " All I could never be All men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." (Raid i ben Ezra.) This intense faith would in itself afford ample consolation under the sting of failure,... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson - 1882 - 216 pages
...' Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' Again, the sense of unrealized desire is an index of character we may regard with some satisfaction.... | |
 | 1883 - 378 pages
...: Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped : All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,... | |
 | M. L. Henry - 1883 - 36 pages
...Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee, and turn thee forth sufficiently impressed. . . . Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare,... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - 1883 - 476 pages
...been promoted been generally that which Mr. Browning puts into the mouth of his Rabbi Ben Ezra ? — •Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare,... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...sorrow can be blest. MRS. HENRY FAUSSETT (ALESSIE BOND). The Cairns of lona. (G. Herbert, Dublin.) THEN, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go ! Be our joy three-parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare,... | |
 | George Gillanders Findlay - 1891 - 212 pages
...perfect in thankfulness, grateful for the bitter as well as for the sweet in their experiences, — for "each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go." Such cheerfulness of soul needs strong faith, and is won through hard trial. Rom. v. 3 — 5 supplies... | |
 | English poets - 1883 - 364 pages
...vcxx. yet swelled the Z* sarZy tc be packed \r.*s> * nartcir act, M* that broke thrccgh language and All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,—... | |
 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1883 - 814 pages
...amount. Thoughts hardly to bo packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ; All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whoso wheel the pitcher shaded. suggestion that failure in this world may be only the prelude of success... | |
| |
