 I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did, And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid.  The Day's Work - Page 191by Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1799 - 402 pages
...conquer, if I would ; Which I abstain to do, Tor by to-morrow I may think so too. 17 THE UNDERTAKING. I HAVE done one braver thing Than all the Worthies...And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to kep that hid. It were but madness now 1' impart The skill of specular stone, When he which can have... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...conquer, if I would ; Which I abstain to doe, For by to morrow I may think so too. THE UNDERTAKING. I HATE done one braver thing, Than all the worthies did ;...braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid. It were but madness now t' impart The skill of specular stone, When he, which can have leam'd the art... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea, CHANGING. THE UNDERTAKING. I HAVE done one braver thing Than all the Worthies...braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid. It were but madness now to impart The skill of specular stone, When he, which can have learned the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea. WE THE UNDERTAKING. I HAVE dune one braver thing Than all the. Worthies did; And yet....braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid. It were but madness now to impart The skill of specular stone, When he, which can have learned the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...If my bark sinks, Mis to another sea. WE CHANGING. THE UNDERTAKING. I HAVK done one braver thin«; Than all the Worthies did ; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid. It were but madness now to impart The skill of specular stone, When he, which can have learned the... | |
 | 1882 - 578 pages
...happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea. CHANNINO. Nay, PAKNASSTJS. THE UNDERTAKING. I HAVE done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did ; And yet a braver thence doth springy Which is, to keep that hid. It were but madness now to impart The skill of specular stone,... | |
 | Wm. J. Linton - 1883 - 294 pages
...do, So 'tis some bravery That, since you would have none of me, I bury some of you. THE UNDERTAKING I HAVE DONE one braver thing Than all the Worthies...braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid. It were but madness now to impart The skill of specular stone, When he, which can have learn'd the... | |
 | William James Linton - 1883 - 300 pages
...a soul can do, So 'tis some bravery That, since you would have none of me, I bury THE UNDERTAKING T HAVE DONE one braver thing •*• Than all the Worthies...braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid. It were but madness now to impart The skill of specular stone, When he, which can have learn'd the... | |
 | 1890 - 898 pages
...diligence. To the other extreme belongs such a poem as that admirable lyric beginning with the lines : — " I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies...thence doth spring, Which is — to keep that hid." This rare achievement is to love a woman without a single thought of the difference of " he and she"... | |
 | Emma Forbes Cary - 1893 - 294 pages
...of him who has obtained the mercy of God. KENELM DIGEY. February 16. Have the faith of God. MAEK xi. I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies...braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid. DONNE (1573-1631). Perform one single action braced with the faith that moves mountains, and see what... | |
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