| Edward Berdoe - 1895 - 356 páginas
...stops my despair ? This : — 'tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do I " 1 " All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand... | |
| Robert Browning - 1895 - 1066 páginas
...Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ; AU I could never be. All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Av. note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spine fast, why passive lies our clay,... | |
| 1925 - 790 páginas
...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... | |
| Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 páginas
...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... | |
| Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - 1997 - 592 páginas
...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... | |
| Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das, Margaret M. Lock - 1997 - 436 páginas
...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... | |
| Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 240 páginas
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account; All instinct immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as...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,... | |
| Emily Carr, Linda Morra, Ira Dilworth - 2006 - 361 páginas
...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... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 páginas
...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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