 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 406 pages
...inexplicable germ Of failure in my schemes ; so that at last It all amounts to this — the sovereign proof That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though there were no God ; A life which, prompted by the sad and blind Lusts of the world, Festus abhors the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 394 pages
...inexplicable germ Of failure in my schemes ; so that at last It all amounts to this—the sovereign proof That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though there were no God ; A life which, prompted by the sad and blind Lusts of the world, Festus abhors the... | |
 | 1868 - 548 pages
...and not merely the deceptive yearning for one." The irony of Paracelsus, then " the sovereign proof that we devote ourselves to God, is seen in living just as though no God there were," comes happily home to much that Festus says. Emulation, followed by fits of blank idleness, with bursts... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...as best we may : p. 8. The path which God's will seems to authorize : Well, he discerns, &c. p. 8. That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as if no God there were; p. 9. — Say how soon Power satiates these, or lust or gold ; I know The world's... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1881 - 1006 pages
...as best we may : p. 8. The path which God's will seems to authorize : Well, he discerns, &c. p. 8. That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as if no God there were; p. 9. — Say how soon Power satiates these, or lust or gold; I know The world's... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 668 pages
...inexplicable germ Of failure in my schemes ; so that at last It all amounts to this — the sovereign proof That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though there were no God ; A life which, prompted by the sad and blind Lusts of the world, Festus abhors the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 438 pages
...inexplicable germ Of failure in my scheme ; so that at last It all amounts to this — the sovereign proof That we devote ourselves to God, is seen' In living just as though no God there were ; A life which, prompted by the sad and blind Folly of man, Festus abhors the most ; But which these... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1888 - 332 pages
...inexplicable germ Of failure in my scheme ; so that at last It all amounts to this — the sovereign proof That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were ; A life which, prompted by the sad and blind Folly of man, Festus abhors the most ; But which these... | |
 | Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...own oil in feeding their own lamp That their own faces may grow brighter thereby. June Twenty-second. That we devote ourselves to God is seen In living just as though no God there were. June Twenty-third. Say not a " small event "! why " small "? Costs it more pain than this ye call A... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1895 - 1066 pages
...inexplicable gerra Of failure in my scheme ; so that at last It all amounts to this — the sovereign proof That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were ; A life which, prompted by the sad and blind Folly of man, Festus abhors the most ; But which these... | |
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It all amounts to this — the sovereign proof That we devote ourselves to God, is seen' In living just as though no God there were... 
