| 1879 - 562 páginas
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure That weighed not as...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' This passage explains better than any other the poet's eagerness to analyse character, and his interest... | |
| 1881 - 790 páginas
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as...ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pilcher shaped. And it must be remembered that it is our finest imaginings which are most apt to be... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 páginas
...stops my despair ? This : — 'tis not what man Does which exalta him, but what man Would do I " 1 " All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson - 1882 - 216 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as...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 páginas
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That 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 páginas
...So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All 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 language and escaped ; All I could never be,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 páginas
...instincts immature, All 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...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 our... | |
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