 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
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled 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... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - 1890 - 382 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's account, — Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act ; Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. ROBERT BROWNING. experience is a corrective of life's delusions, — a modification, a reversal of... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 344 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled 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... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...the world's coarse thumb And finger could not plumb, So passed in making up the main account: Though hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note the Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,—... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 pages
...purposes unsure, That wrighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : Thoughts hardly to 1« packed Into a narrow act. Fancies that broke through...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 lie* onr clay,... | |
 | St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.). Alumni Association - 1890 - 186 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...All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God."* "Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra. The measure of that worthiness is to be found in love. The desire for a... | |
 | 1890 - 664 pages
...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. Hear the estimate of work which follows — Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...be, All, men ignored in me, This I was worth to God .... Here, truly, we have a noble expression of man's ultimate aim and value — a plan of life in... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 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...escaped; All I could never be, All men ignored in mo, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD. O, to be in... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 pages
...in a trice, plumb with its coarse thumb ; God holds appraising in his hollow palm, the seed of act, thoughts hardly to be packed into a narrow act, fancies that broke through language and escaped ; all instincts immature, all purposes unsure, that weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's account.... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...coarse thumb and finger failed to plumb, — there are all instincts immature, all purposes unsure, •" Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped;" All that we could never be, all that men ignored in us, this we are worth to God. And then putting life's... | |
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