 | Robert Browning - 1835 - 234 páginas
...cares, and doubts ; All with a touch of nobleness, for all Their error, all ambitious, upward tending, Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...climb and get to him : All this I knew not, and I fail'd ; let men Regard me, and the poet dead long ago Who loved too rashly ; and shape forth a third,... | |
 | 1882 - 844 páginas
...and with much power always much more love. (P. 194.) Paracelsus confesses that he saw no good in man, and why ? In my own heart love had not been made wise...and get to him, All this I knew not, and I failed. (P. 195.) It is this love of mankind, even in its i meanest and most degraded forms, that j accounts... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 páginas
...power of mere knowledge or experience, and that they were — • " all ambltious, upwards tending, Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But...may be. And do their best to climb and get to him." He had, moreover, a sentient perception, " beyond the comprehension of our narrow thought, but somehow... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 páginas
...that they were — - " all ambitious, upwards tending, Like planU in mines, which never saw the ftan, But dream of him and guess where he may be, And do their best to clunb and get to him." He had, moreover, a sentient perception, "beyond the comprehension of our narrow... | |
 | 1912 - 666 páginas
...See King's ' Classical and Foreign Quotations,' 3rd edition, p. 317. EDWARD BENSLY. (11 S. iv. 469.) Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But...may be. And do their best to climb and get to him. Browning's ' Paracelsus,' last page. TSO MILITARY EXECUTIONS (11 S. iv. 8, 57, 98. 157, 193, 237, 295,... | |
 | 1857 - 542 páginas
...fears, and cares, and doubts ; Which all touch upon nobleness, despite Their error, all tend upwardly, though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw...do their best to climb and get to him. All this I know not, and I failed. Let men Hegard me and the poet dead long ago — Who once loved rashly ; and... | |
 | 1902 - 902 páginas
...and weakness alike, " upward tending, all though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw the ran, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him." It is the same dominant chord of courage. All the battle cries of all the ages are in it, and the confidence... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 páginas
...in his voice made the Russian officer turn and watch him as he went away. CHAPTEE XXIX. THE BARGAIN. Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. ' OH, yes,' Barlasch was saying, ' it is easier to die — it is that that you are thinking — it... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 872 páginas
...watch him as he went away. CHAPTER XXIX. THE BARGAIN. Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, Bat dream of him and guess where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. ' OH, yes,' Barlasch was saying, ' it is easier to die — it is that that you are thinking — it... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 448 páginas
...mind and heart — an example which we can only follow afar off and feel after, Like plants or vines which never saw the sun, But dream of him and guess...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. Again, no young man can rise from the perusal of euch lives as those of Buxton and Arnold, without... | |
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To trace love's faint beginnings in mankind, To know even hate is but a mask of love's. To see a good in evil, and a hope In ill-success ; to sympathize, be proud Of their half-reasons, faint aspirings, dim Struggles for truth, their poorest fallacies,... 
