 Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.  Dramatis Personœ - Page 97by Robert Browning - 1864 - 262 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1882 - 520 pages
...restore them one day perfected and completed ; a God who looks not to results, but to effort — " All I could never be All men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." (Raid i ben Ezra.) This intense faith would in itself afford ample consolation under the sting of failure,... | |
 | 1882 - 612 pages
...restore them one day perfected and completed ; a God who looks not to results, but to effort — " All I could never be All men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." (Rabbi ben Ezra.) This intense faith would in itself afford ample consolation under the sting of failure,... | |
 | 1883 - 378 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: ' Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,—... | |
 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1883 - 814 pages
...purposes unsure, That -neighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. Thoughts hardly to bo packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through...be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whoso wheel the pitcher shaded. suggestion that failure in this world may be only the prelude of success... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1883 - 382 pages
...man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed Fancies that broke through language and Into a narrow act, escaped; All I could never be, All men ignored in...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. That metaphor! and feel Ay, note that Potter's wheel, Why time spins fast, why passive lies our Thou,... | |
 | English poets - 1883 - 364 pages
...vcxx. yet swelled the Z* sarZy tc be packed \r.*s> * nartcir act, M* that broke thrccgh language and All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,—... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet svelled the man's amount : XXV Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. XXVI Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet svelled the man's amount : XXV Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. XXVI Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our... | |
 | Amelia E. Barr - 1885 - 344 pages
...with its six thousand years of gathered wisdom, may be wrong. CHAPTER VII. THE MAN AT DEATH'S DOOR. " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." IT must be remembered, however, that Mai' garet was bound by ties whose strength this generation can... | |
 | 1885 - 482 pages
...things done, that took the eye and had the price. Then, he continues — "Thoughts, that could scarce be packed Into a narrow act Fancies, that broke through...All men ignored in me This, I was worth to God!—" How like, yet how unlike, George Eliot ! The same ideas, but what a different feeling! And what is... | |
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