 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,...  Robert Browning's Poetical Works - Página 176por Robert Browning - 1888 - 17 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 470 páginas
...example which we can only follow afar off and feel after, Like plants or vines which never saw the snn, But dream of him and guess "where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. Again, no young man can rise from the perusal of such lives as those of Buxton and Arnold, without... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1864 - 396 páginas
...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 such lives as those of Buxton and Arnold, without... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 408 páginas
...cares, and doubts ; Which all touch upon nobleness, despite Their error, all tend upwardly though weak, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do their best to clirnb and get to him. All this I knew not, and I failed. Let men Regard me, and the poet dead long... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - 1867 - 264 páginas
...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...And do their best to climb and get to him." * All other models are imperfect, and we are prone to copy imperfections — as boys do at school. Sir Peter... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 páginas
...— in unassuming performance of the work which Heaven may impose upon thee ! " 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." [AUTHORITIES. — Pepys' Diary; Mr. Hepworth Dixon's admirable and exhaustive Biography; Henry Sidney's... | |
 | Walter E. Fernald State School - 1868 - 1022 páginas
...of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all though weak, Like plants in mines which'never saw the sun, But dream of him and guess where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him." The secret of all education is in bringing light out of darkness. It is emphatically the secret of... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 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 such lives as those of Buxton and Arnold, without... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 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...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him." Man's concern is with to-day. To live overmuch in the future is to sacrifice the present, and so peril... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott - 1880 - 564 páginas
...highest attainable : we can only set it before us as a copy and exemplar. "As plants or vines that never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do their best to get to him." The great thing for us is to be real. It is the decision of the heart that gives decision... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1881 - 1006 páginas
...a mask of love's, To see a good in evil, and a hope In ill-success ; to sympathize, be proud Of the half-reasons, faint aspirings, dim Struggles for truth,...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him." ' And when we come to our Pisgah 2 we cannot expect to see more than the poet has seen : " How I see... | |
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