 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 202 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1911 - 660 pàgines
...dieting, and Dr. Gebhart— but then his moderation is well known. Dr. Mettler's classic address: " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped." While no one understands the cause of exophthalmic goiter, Dr. Crile's theory that fear causes enlargement... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1901 - 982 pàgines
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...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;... | |
 | 1888 - 844 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Sir William Symington M'Cormick - 1889 - 196 pàgines
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. • " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." * 1 James Lee's Wife. 2 Rabbi ben Ezra. BROWNING. 181 Life's success is not in attainment but in endeavour.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1889 - 276 pàgines
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 344 pàgines
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...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... | |
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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. 
