| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...be the iinal goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood: That nothing walks, with aimless feet; That not one...Or but subserves another's gain. Behold we know not any thins: 1 can but trust that good shall fall At last — far-off — at last, to all, And every... | |
| 1867 - 396 pages
...Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and sins of blood. That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one...to the void, When God hath made the pile complete." So Browning, in his "Apparent Failure," expresses his belief that the failure is not irretrievable—... | |
| 1883 - 498 pages
...told of hope for all mankind, for the .... trust that, somehow, good will be the final goal of ill. " That nothing walks with aimless feet, That not one life shall be destroyed, Or oast as rubbish to the void, When He has made the pile complete." Whatever may be our personal views,... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...the final goal of ill, To f >:ni"s of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; "That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one...but subserves another's gain. " Behold ! we know not any thing ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last, — far off, — at last, to all, And every... | |
| 1850 - 676 pages
...the final goal of ill, To pantfs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; " That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one...but subserves another's gain. " Behold ! we know not any thing ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last, — far off, — at last, to all, And every... | |
| 1850 - 602 pages
...be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one...When God hath made the pile complete : That not a wormjis cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one...but subserves another's gain. Behold ! we know not any thing ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last, — far off", — at last, to all, And every... | |
| 1850 - 550 pages
...of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not oue life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the...cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold ! we know not anything ; I can... | |
| 1850 - 602 pages
...be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one...When God hath made the pile complete : That not a wormjis cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire IB shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroy 'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made...cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anything ; I can... | |
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