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" My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. "
Browning and Whitman: A Study in Democracy - Page 80
by Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1893 - 145 pages
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1867 - 396 pages
...Browning, in his "Apparent Failure," expresses his belief that the failure is not irretrievable— " My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began the best, can't end the worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove all accurst." THE PHYSICAL SUFFERINGS...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issues 1-50

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being meek than fierce ! It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worse, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst, Well, we find no fault with that ; doubtless it is...
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The Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 58

1901 - 834 pages
...so are our days. Amid shattering of our dearest desires, we ever echo the words of the poet: — " My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst." But, even at this, something remains to tell ere we can see fully why, once at least in a lifetime,...
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Dramatis personæ [poems]. Author's ed

Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...wiser being good than bad ; It 's safer being meek than fierce : It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. EPILOGUE. EPILOGUE. FIEST SPEAKEE. 1. ON the first of the Feast of Feasts, The Dedication Day, When...
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Dramatis Personœ

Robert Browning - 1864 - 300 pages
...wiser being good than bad ; It 's safer being meek than fierce : It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. EPILOGUE. EPILOGUE. FIRST SPEAKER. • i. ON the first of the Feast of Feasts, The Dedication Day,...
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Dramatis Personae

Robert Browning - 1864 - 270 pages
...wiser being good than bad ; It 's safer being meek than fierce : It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, .a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. EPILOGUE. EPILOGUE. FIRST SPEAKER, as David. 1. On the first of the Feast of Feasts, The Dedication...
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Dramatis Personae

Robert Browning - 1864 - 266 pages
...It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; EPILOGUE. EPILOGUE. FIRST SPEAKER, as David. 1. On the first of the Feast of Feasts, The Dedication...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 5; Volume 68

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...of each, utters his trust that all is not over, his belief that the failure is not irretrievable : " My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst." The same feeling find» utterance in yet more noble words in the prayer of "Rabbi Ben Ezra": " So take...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 4

1867 - 590 pages
...each, utters his trust that all is not over, his belief that the failure is not irretrievable : — " My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst." The same feeling finds utterance in yet more noble words in the prayer of " Eabbi Ben Ezra : "— "...
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Armstrong Magney, by Heraclitus Grey

Charles Marshall (novelist.) - 1867 - 322 pages
...II'H wiser being good than bad ; It's Hafcr beiug meek than fierce ; It's fitter being Bane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth erer stretched ; That after Last returns the First, Tho" n wide compass round be fetched ; That what...
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