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" 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 97
by Robert Browning - 1864 - 262 pages
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The Greater Victorian Poets

Hugh Walker - 1895 - 352 pages
...yard-stick, and that impulses and purposes must be reckoned in the sum as well a| things accomplished. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, "Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. It seems clear that on the whole Dramatis Persona marks an advance even upon Men and Women. There is...
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Browning's Beginnings: The Art of Disclosure

Herbert F. Tucker - 271 pages
...though projecting out of, overflowing, and transcending their mediums." See "Rabbi Ben Ezra" (1864): "Thoughts hardly to be packed / Into a narrow act,.../ Fancies that broke through language and escaped" (145-47). Or see, in a less pontifical vein, The Inn Album (1875): "That bard's a Browning; he neglects...
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Rice Institute Pamphlet, Volumes 12-13

1925 - 790 pages
...useless. He goes a step further elsewhere in saying that even our intentions count, as much as our acts: All I could never be,"' All, men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. naively, almost cynically expressed in the lines following those we began to quote : And so both memories...
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The Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 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 1 and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our...
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Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938, Volume 3

Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - 1997 - 592 pages
...lure!” (A Grammarian's Funeral, [lines 79—84, 101—121) Rabbi Ben Ezra voices the same philosophy: Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 35 Now when we combine Browning's moralized attitude to Christianity with a Christian treatment of...
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Social Suffering

Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das, Margaret M. Lock - 1997 - 436 pages
...failed to plumb. . . Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Faces that broke through thoughts and escaped, All I could never be, All, men ignored...me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.36 Four decades after this letter, Ji Xianlin — one of the "youth" who most admired its author...
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Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages

David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...little by little it becomes shapeless, somber. Ugo Betti, 1946, Crime on Goat Island (trans.), I. iv 2:8 Thoughts hardly to be packed / Into a narrow act, / Fancies that broke through language and escaped. Robert Browning, 1864, 'Rabbi Ben Ezra', stanza 25 2:9 Wordiness and intellection - / The more with...
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In a Dark Wood: Journeys of Faith and Doubt

Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 240 pages
...instinct 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,...
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Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth

Emily Carr, Linda Morra, Ira Dilworth - 2006 - 361 pages
...all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ... All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This,...was worth, to God whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' That's fine and courageous, isn't it? And yet many people (Sedgewick included) think of Browning as...
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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon. ROBERT BROWNING All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God! Although his early efforts were dismissed as obscure and difficult, by the end of his life, Robert...
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