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
| Robert Browning - 1887 - 140 pages
...at least, — Life is not truly life but misery. BALAUSTION'S ADVENTUBE. 18. George H. Lewes, 1817. 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,... | |
| Lucy Larcom - 1887 - 252 pages
...necessity, and thus in reality triumphed over it, and felt that in necessity we are free. THOMAS CARLYLB. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! ROBERT HKOV, NINO. 27 April. Can man or woman choose duties ? No more than they can choose their... | |
| Robert Browning - 1887 - 462 pages
...disturbs our clod ; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe. VI. 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 ;... | |
| William Henry Thorne - 1886 - 194 pages
...saith ' A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God : see all, nor be afraid !' *********** "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,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1887 - 202 pages
...man's amount : Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow fact, Fancies that broke through language and All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel escaped ; Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies... | |
| 1897 - 560 pages
...brute, But would not sink i' the scale." And again, "All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, * * * All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God." That Browning, the poet of action, whose heroes are all fighters and whose saints are all soldiers,... | |
| Georgia Bar Association - 1901 - 982 pages
...amount. 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." The 'thought so exquisitely expressed in these lines is as true of the corporate 'being as of the individual;... | |
| Harry Butler SIMPSON - 1888 - 222 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." But the question arises, how far can such a view of life be shown to be in accordance with truth ?... | |
| 1888 - 844 pages
...its most revered representative ? W. OUTRAM TRI*TRAM. Lib: A LIVERPOOL CHILD. BY AGNES C. MAITLAND. "All, I could never be All men ignored in me. This...worth to God — whose wheel the pitcher shaped." R. BROWXING. CHAPTER I. I HE was standing in the midst of a group of companions at their favourite... | |
| Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 pages
...hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe. Then, welcome each rebuffthat 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,... | |
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