 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 - 1889 - 278 pages
...xxv. 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. XXVI. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - 1889 - 690 pages
...goodness, anil believe in a standard I can never reach, and take some comfort in thoughts like this : — " All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." March 18, 1869. ... I don't know that I ever saw William look brighter or better than this morning,... | |
 | Sir William Symington M'Cormick - 1889 - 196 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." " 1 fames Lee's Wife. 2 Rabbi ben Ezra. Life's success is not in attainment but in endeavour. " It... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1889 - 276 pages
...xxv. 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. XXVI. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies... | |
 | Sir William Symington M'Cormick - 1889 - 196 pages
...man." Sebald is "proud to feel such torments;" Pompilia's woes have wrought a sweetness in her soul. " 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 I Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ;... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 pages
...have been, but would not sink i' the scale. § For what men reject is that which is pleasing to God : All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God. || Everywhere in Browning's writings we meet with the glory and nobleness of unsatisfied aspirations,... | |
 | 1889 - 836 pages
...fashions it can make it. It is the part alike of humility and of wisdom to say, with the pious Rabbi : — Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough ; Each sting, that bids nor sit or stand but go ; Be our joy, three parts pain ? Strive, and hold cheap the strain. Learn, nor account... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...account: Though 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 the Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,—... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - 1890 - 382 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. ROBERT BROWNING. experience is a corrective of life's delusions, — a modification, a reversal of... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 192 pages
...account : Though 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 the Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,... | |
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