| 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...All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." IT must be remembered, however, that Mai' garet... | |
| 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 I could never be 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... | |
| 1885 - 282 pages
...that these are not for nothing — " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies which 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." There is — who can deny ? — a sense of ruin... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1885 - 466 pages
...lavishness of his stageappointments. In the one he strains every nerve after the expression of — " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped." l In the other his reserve and reticence are marked. In face of the adoption by Mr. Browning of a course... | |
| Robert Browning - 1886 - 626 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : 25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor... | |
| Robert Browning - 1886 - 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...All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wlieel the pitcher shaped. j XXvI. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor... | |
| Robert Browning, Hiram Corson - 1886 - 408 pages
...immature, 'All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : I a5Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that...All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor... | |
| Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 344 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 I could never be, 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... | |
| Robert Browning - 1887 - 462 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...All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. XXVI. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor... | |
| Robert Browning - 1887 - 64 pages
...unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed 145 Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language...All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 150 Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor... | |
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