 | 1856 - 506 pages
...first plays him all the tunes he can think of; then sings to him of " the wild joys of living :" " How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy !" Then he turns away from this merely animal life, and sings of the human... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...dried river-channel where bullrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses, forever in joy! Hast thou loved the white locks of thy father, whose sword thou didst guard... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses, for ever in joy I Hast thou loved the white locks of thy father, whose sword thou didst... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses, for ever in joy ! If life, 'mere living,' be indeed such a lovely thing, where is the good... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...dried river-channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!" But something yet remained behind. The wish and thought were loftier than... | |
 | 1867 - 590 pages
...dried river-channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy !" But something yet remained behind. The wish and thought were loftier... | |
 | Geological Society of Glasgow - 1902 - 488 pages
...rending of boughs from the fir tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in the pool's living water . . . How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy ! " * A start is now made about a hundred yards up the burn to a cliff,... | |
 | 1897 - 1272 pages
...rending of boughs from the firtree, the cool, silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, . . . How good is man's life, the mere living ! How fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy ! We submitted ourselves to more rigors, possibly, than would be relished... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1870 - 298 pages
...the happy brutes, as there is another joy that gives him some understanding of the bliss of God. " How good is man's life, the mere living ; how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in py!" This is the joy that sings itself under the deep lessons of the parables,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...Cf. "Patiently dance in our round." — SHAKESPEARE, Midi, ND ii. 2. 3 1 Vital feelings of delight. " How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart, and the soul, and the senses, for ever in joy ! " — R. BROWNING, Saul, 76. 32 Shall rear her form. Joy is popularly... | |
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How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy! 
