| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...in the pitcher ; the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bullrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly...heart and the soul and the senses, forever in joy! Hast thou loved the white locks of thy father, whose sword thou didst guard When he trusted thee forth... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 pages
...locust's-flesh steeped in the pitcher; the full And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bullrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly...the heart and the soul and the senses, forever in Hast thou loved the white locks of thy father, whose sword thou didst guard When he trusted thee forth... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 268 pages
...man, propose this test— Thy body at its best, How fer can that project thy soul on its lone way ? 9. Yet gifts should prove their use: I own the Past profuse Of power-each side, perfection every turn: Eyes, ears took in their dole, Brain treasured up the whole;... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...locust's flesh steeped in the pitcher! The full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go...heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!" But something yet remained behind. The wish and thought were loftier than as yet his power of execution.... | |
| 1897 - 1272 pages
...rending of boughs from the firtree, the cool, silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, . . . How good is man's life, the mere living ! How fit...the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy ! We submitted ourselves to more rigors, possibly, than would be relished by some people. It is possible,... | |
| Phillips Brooks - 1870 - 298 pages
...the happy brutes, as there is another joy that gives him some understanding of the bliss of God. " How good is man's life, the mere living ; how fit...All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in py!" This is the joy that sings itself under the deep lessons of the parables, like the music under... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...man, propose this test, — Thy body at its best, How far can that project thy soul on its lone way ? Yet gifts should prove their use : I own the Past profuse Of power each side, |>erfection every turn : Eyes, ears took in their dole, Brain treasured up the whole ; Should not the... | |
| Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...physical existence is jubilantly chanted in David's Song before Saul, ending with " How good is man' life, the mere living! How fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses, Forever in joy ! " " O ! our manhood's prime vigor ! " Corson " assumes that this is an expression of the poet's experience... | |
| Phillips Brooks - 1879 - 288 pages
...the happy brutes, as there is another joy that gives him some understanding of the bliss of God. " How good is man's life, the mere living ; how fit...heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!" This is the joy that sings itself under the deep lessons of the parables, like the music under the... | |
| Edward William Lane - 1879 - 302 pages
...That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living 1 how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy 1 ' — BROWNING, Saul. BETWEEN Egypt and Assyria, jostled by both, yielding to neither,... | |
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