| Phillips Brooks, H. L. S., L. H. S. - 1892 - 384 páginas
...new mornings to his work the strength and the visions that have come to him in his slumber ? i. 221. That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here —... | |
| Robert Browning - 1892 - 488 páginas
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " He answered, " Yes ! Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here —... | |
| Marshall Mather - 1892 - 190 páginas
...earth's failure : "Wilt thou trust death or not ?" He answered, " Yes ; Hence with life's pale lure !" That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one His hundreds soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses a unit. That, has the world here —... | |
| Ben Jonson - 1892 - 218 páginas
...study for. Mr. Swinburne, in his commentary, refers us to Robert Browning's A Grammarian's Funeral: That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses a unit. That, has the world here —... | |
| Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 páginas
...study for. Mr. Swinburne, in his commentary, refers us to Robert Browning's A Grammarian's Funeral : That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses a unit. That, has the world here —... | |
| 1892 - 272 páginas
...lofty designs above the one just quoted, to read another " familiar quotation " as follows : " The low man seeks a little thing to do. Sees it and does it. The high man with a great thing to pursue Dies ere he knows it." So far as familiarity goes we should... | |
| Robert Browning - 1893 - 428 páginas
...earth's failure: " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " He answered " Yes ! Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...adding one to one, His hundred 's soon hit : This hitrh man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here — should he need the next,... | |
| Esther Phoebe Defries - 1893 - 176 páginas
...what appeared to him the highest aim, that the old grammarian ceases to be dull and insignificant. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." The, Heretic'? Tragedy: A Middle-Age Interhide,— The victim of this tragedy is supposed to be Jacques... | |
| William James Dawson - 1893 - 414 páginas
...Browning puts into four terse and epigrammatic lines the same truth:— This low man seeks a little tiling to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. A point which Browning is never weary of illustrating is that to all men there come moments of halfinspired... | |
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 páginas
...gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its hospital in the human heart. Harlfy. This low man st?eks ered flics abroad never to be recalled. Hor. Et sequentía, Et seq. .ч great thing to pursue, / Dies ere he knows it. HrjîvHttiff. fi This man receiveth sinners, and... | |
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