For thence, - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail : What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i Dramatis Personae - Pàgina 79per Robert Browning - 1864 - 250 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1882 - 844 pàgines
...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe l For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. (" Rabbi ben Ezra.") Such are Mr. Browning's vigorous utterances upon the most universal and depressing... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pàgines
...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,...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pàgines
...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,...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. & What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 300 pàgines
...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,...succeed in that it seems to fail : What I aspired to be, -v And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 pàgines
...pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; \ Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the V throe ! 7. For thence — a paradox Which comforts...mocks — Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail : jWhat I aspired to be, A And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink... | |
| Brooke Foss Westcott - 1874 - 412 pàgines
...vigour 1 The student of Browning will recall countless passages in which he illuminates this truth. For thence- -a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. INTRODUC- of will of which under ordinary circumstances he is wholly unconscious. The crisis brings... | |
| Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pàgines
...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! VII. For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 1 VIII. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs... | |
| Songs - 1874 - 252 pàgines
...hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! For thenco, — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, — Shall...succeed in that it seems to fail ; What I aspired to bo And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. Not once... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pàgines
...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks — Shall life succeed in that it seema to fail : What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me : A brute 1 might hare been, but would... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 550 pàgines
...; indeed, failure is often an indication of a loftier ideal than any which success has aimed at. ' For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. ' Not on the vulgar mass Called " work " must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had... | |
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