 The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means: a very different thing!  New Outlook - Page 231897Full view - About this book
 | William Angus Knight - 1879 - 456 pages
...contemplation, by the vigour with which he works in beating it down. As Browning profoundly says — The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is not...it fair Up to our means — a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...knowledge which we gain too frequently only after bitter experience. Listen to Robert Browning : — " The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is not...it fair, Up to our means — a very different thing ! " Hazlitt says that if a youth who shows no aptitude for languages dances well, we should abandon... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1880 - 392 pages
...would be all, I would be merely much : you beat me there. No, friend, you do not beat me : harken why ! The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is —...make it fair Up to our means : a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 pages
...more I am convinced that success or failure in it depends upon the due measurement of our powers. " The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is not...fancy what were fair in life, Provided it could be, bnt finding jnst What may be, then find how to make it fair, Up to our means — a very different thing... | |
 | Alice Weber - 1882 - 364 pages
...strength of that " old superstition " which Merlyn had put away with his childish things. CHAPTER XI. The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is —...it fair, Up to our means : a very different thing ! R. Browning. PHYLLIS survived it, and did not die of a broken heart. Some passages of a life may... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 344 pages
...be all, I would be merely much : you beat me there. No, friend, you do not beat me : hearken why ! The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is—...make it fair Up to our means : a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 600 pages
...— you beat me there. No, friend, you do not beat me, — hearken why The common problem, your's, mine, every one's, Is not to fancy what were fair...it fair Up to our means — a very different thing ! No abstract mtellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man,... | |
 | 1886 - 476 pages
...stated as the philosophy of practical modern life— that philosophy which clearly sees that : — " The common problem, yours, mine, every one's Is not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it might be, but finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means— a veiy different... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 474 pages
...be all, I would be merely much : you beat me there. No, friend, you do not beat me : hearken why ! The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is —...make it fair Up to our means : a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 318 pages
...would be all, I would be merely much : you beat me there. No, friend, you do not beat me : harken why ! The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is —...make it fair Up to our means : a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man,... | |
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