 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 64 pagina’s
...its mind, could value in a trice: But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, 140 So passed in making up the main account: All instincts...swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed 145 Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped: All I could never be, All men... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 462 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...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 228 pagina’s
...mind, could value in a trice : XXIV. But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, 14° So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount ; xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed MS Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1901 - 982 pagina’s
...• Things done, that took the eye and had the price ; But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account...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 pagina’s
...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 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...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.). Alumni Association - 1890 - 186 pagina’s
...the vulgar mass Called work must sentence pass, ****** But all the world's course thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account;...All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God."* "Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra. The measure of that worthiness is to be found in love. The desire for a... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 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;...escaped; All I could never be, All men ignored in mo, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD. O, to be in... | |
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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. 
