For thence, - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail : What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i Dramatis Personae - Página 79por Robert Browning - 1864 - 250 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1882 - 844 páginas
...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe l For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. (" Rabbi ben Ezra.") Such are Mr. Browning's vigorous utterances upon the most universal and depressing... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 páginas
...earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 páginas
...turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. & What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 300 páginas
...earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, -and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,...succeed in that it seems to fail : What I aspired to be, -v And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 páginas
...pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; \ Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the V throe ! 7. For thence — a paradox Which comforts...mocks — Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail : jWhat I aspired to be, A And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink... | |
| Brooke Foss Westcott - 1874 - 412 páginas
...vigour 1 The student of Browning will recall countless passages in which he illuminates this truth. For thence- -a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. INTRODUC- of will of which under ordinary circumstances he is wholly unconscious. The crisis brings... | |
| Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 páginas
...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! VII. For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 1 VIII. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs... | |
| Songs - 1874 - 252 páginas
...hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! For thenco, — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, — Shall...succeed in that it seems to fail ; What I aspired to bo And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. Not once... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 páginas
...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks — Shall life succeed in that it seema to fail : What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me : A brute 1 might hare been, but would... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 550 páginas
...; indeed, failure is often an indication of a loftier ideal than any which success has aimed at. ' For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. ' Not on the vulgar mass Called " work " must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had... | |
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