 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
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 140 pages
...24. Sir James Mackintosh, 1765. The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to f aucy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but,...make it fair Up to our means ; a very different thing ! BISHOP BLOUGHAM'S APOLOGY. 25. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1800. Thou, patient thus, couldst rise... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1889 - 326 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,... | |
 | James Stark - 1889 - 202 pages
...are wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. "— WORDSWORTH. " The common problem, — your's, mine, every one's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it would be, — but finding just What may be, then find how to make it fair, Up to our means, — a very... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 306 pages
...would 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, who... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 pages
...comforts while it mocks — " Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail ? " And Bishop Blougram : — " Not to fancy what were fair in life, "Provided it...fair — " Up to our means, a very different thing." Most consoling is the idea as expressed in the lines on a group of two mutes : — " Only the prism's... | |
 | Lester Coe Hubbard - 1891 - 500 pages
...illogical — none will be more thankful than he who wrote this book. CHAPTER XX THE TASK THAT IMPLORES US "The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is,...Provided it could be, but finding first What may be, then strive how to make it fair, Up to our means." — [Robert Browning. In 1856 Roger B. Taney was Chief... | |
 | First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Calif. Ladies - 1891 - 96 pages
...Inscription on ihe wall of Andrew Carnegie' s Library. 62 The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be— but ftnding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means. —Browning. He is wisest,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 466 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,... | |
 | 1892 - 1124 pages
...regard to the laws of gravitation. His problem — the common one — like Browning's Bishop Blongram's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it...be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means. On this lower plane the statesman must be content to work, and within these prosaic -limits there is... | |
 | Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...unbelief Bears upon our life, determines its whole course, Begins at its beginning. January Ninth. The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is —...could be, — but, finding first What may be, then how to make it fair Up to our means : a very different thing. January Tenth. The beginning shall suffice... | |
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