 | 1891 - 728 pagina’s
...of a man's feeling that is the measure of his capabilities, the test of the Divine spark within him. 'All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' So, when his energies are nobly directed, whether he attains or fails, the man has accomplished the... | |
 | 1891 - 448 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...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not at his work, yet swelled the man's amount. " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 488 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 - 1892 - 466 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... | |
 | Marshall Mather - 1892 - 190 pagina’s
...are these to seduce the man from right ? No ; rather ' 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.' In other words, there is a great deal of unseen material ever going to make up the character of the... | |
 | 1892 - 666 pagina’s
...last spoke, from his poem " Rabbi Ben Ezra": — "Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow fact. Fancies that broke through language and escaped ;...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. " So take and use thy work : Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past... | |
 | Henry Austin Adams - 1893 - 210 pagina’s
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, but swelled the man's account. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act ; Fancies...All men ignored in me — This I was worth to God." Let us be very sure, as S. Paul was, that in the sight of God we are just what we are. In the clearness... | |
 | Evelyn M. Noble - 1893 - 120 pagina’s
...Hints of the proper craft, tricks of the tool's true play. But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account...That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's account. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped... | |
 | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - 1894 - 238 pagina’s
...brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. " 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." It may be a somewhat ethereal compensation which the poet here hints at, but on that account none the... | |
 | 1894 - 136 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. 99 Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our... | |
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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. 
