| Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 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...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,... | |
| Herbert F. Tucker - 271 páginas
...though projecting out of, overflowing, and transcending their mediums." See "Rabbi Ben Ezra" (1864): "Thoughts hardly to be packed / Into a narrow act,.../ Fancies that broke through language and escaped" (145-47). Or see, in a less pontifical vein, The Inn Album (1875): "That bard's a Browning; he neglects... | |
| 1925 - 790 páginas
...useless. He goes a step further elsewhere in saying that even our intentions count, as much as our acts: All I could never be,"' All, men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. naively, almost cynically expressed in the lines following those we began to quote : And so both memories... | |
| Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 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: xxv Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped;... | |
| Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - 1997 - 592 páginas
...lure!” (A Grammarian's Funeral, [lines 79—84, 101—121) Rabbi Ben Ezra voices the same philosophy: Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 35 Now when we combine Browning's moralized attitude to Christianity with a Christian treatment of... | |
| Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das, Margaret M. Lock - 1997 - 436 páginas
...failed to plumb. . . Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Faces that broke through thoughts and escaped, All I could never be, All, men ignored...me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.36 Four decades after this letter, Ji Xianlin — one of the "youth" who most admired its author... | |
| David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 páginas
...little by little it becomes shapeless, somber. Ugo Betti, 1946, Crime on Goat Island (trans.), I. iv 2:8 Thoughts hardly to be packed / Into a narrow act, / Fancies that broke through language and escaped. Robert Browning, 1864, 'Rabbi Ben Ezra', stanza 25 2:9 Wordiness and intellection - / The more with... | |
| Barbara Harlow, Mia Carter - 2003 - 852 páginas
...joins hands with poetry at this point, and Browning's "Rabbi Ben Ezra" will occur to all: All instincts immature, All purposes unsure That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's account. All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This was I worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher... | |
| John S. Mackenzie - 2005 - 493 páginas
...world's conrse thumb And finger failed to plu;nb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure. That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the awn's amount. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and... | |
| Emily Carr, Linda Morra, Ira Dilworth - 2006 - 361 páginas
...all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ... All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This,...was worth, to God whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' That's fine and courageous, isn't it? And yet many people (Sedgewick included) think of Browning as... | |
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