 | William Lonsdale Watkinson - 1882 - 216 pagina’s
...to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, I That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's...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.... | |
 | 1882 - 612 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1883 - 382 pagina’s
...straightway to its mind, could the price; value in a trice: But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account;...swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed Fancies that broke through language and Into a narrow act, escaped; All I could never be, All men ignored... | |
 | M. L. Henry - 1883 - 36 pagina’s
...Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice ; " But all the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account;...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount." All this, he says, the man or woman is worth to God " whose wheel the pitcher shaped." George Eliot,... | |
 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1883 - 814 pagina’s
...purposes unsure, That -neighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. Thoughts hardly to bo packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through...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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pagina’s
...straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : XXIV But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account...purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet svelled the man's amount : XXV Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pagina’s
...straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : XXIV But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account...purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet svelled the man's amount : XXV Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through... | |
 | Amelia E. Barr - 1885 - 344 pagina’s
...with its six thousand years of gathered wisdom, may be wrong. CHAPTER VII. THE MAN AT DEATH'S DOOR. " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." IT must be remembered, however, that Mai' garet was bound by ties whose strength this generation can... | |
 | 1885 - 482 pagina’s
...things done, that took the eye and had the price. Then, he continues — "Thoughts, that could scarce be packed Into a narrow act Fancies, that broke through...All men ignored in me This, I was worth to God!—" How like, yet how unlike, George Eliot ! The same ideas, but what a different feeling! And what is... | |
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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. 
