| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1848 - 538 pages
...Tib. I return From Florence : I serve Pisa, and must think By such procedure I have served her best. A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one — And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. Such man are... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 pages
...he may furnish and instruct great teachers, And never seek for aid out of himself. Henry VIII. 29. A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one — And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. Such man are... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...Tib. I return From Florence : I serve Pisa, and must think By such procedure I have served her best. A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one — And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. Such man are... | |
| 1889 - 876 pages
...and mould those who come to us from abroad. I believe that we have not made enough of leadership. " A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one ; And those who live as models for the man Are singly of more value than they all." We shall not again... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...Tib. I return From Florence : I serve Pisa, and must think By such procedure I have served her best. A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one — And those who live as mddels for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. Such man are... | |
| 1868 - 548 pages
...follow," etc. ; and here in " Luria " we have it still more broadly put, as in the passage at page 425, " A people is but the attempt of many to rise to the completer life of one," etc. The question thus is not of the State, not of policies, not of " battle's loss or gain," but —... | |
| Robert Browning - 1881 - 1006 pages
...fresh stuff for the intellect to stamp and keep — fresh instinct for it to translate into law. " A people is but the attempt of many to rise to the completer life of one." (A SouTs Tragedy.) Only the man who supplies new feeling fresh from God, quickens and regenerates the... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...fresh stuff for the intellect to stamp and keep — fresh instinct for it to translate into law. " A people is but the attempt of many to rise to the compléter life of one." (A Soul's Tragedy.) Only the man who supplies new feeling fresh from God,... | |
| Daniel Garrison Brinton - 1882 - 252 pages
...the opinions of the majority. This is also at the basis of Robert Browning's definition of a people : "A people is but the attempt of many to rise to the completer life of one " (A SouVs Tragedy). THE MORAL IDEAL. 233 they discovered in them so much that was good, so much that... | |
| Robert William Dale - 1884 - 328 pages
...worth to a nation of a man of heroic goodness—illustrate the philosophy of Christian morals :— " A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one ; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. Such man are you,... | |
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