 | 1881 - 1046 pages
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So pused in making up the main account j All instinct* immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as...ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitoher shaped.' Again, the sense of unrealized desire is an index of character which we may regard... | |
 | 1882 - 844 pages
...to restore them one day perfected and completed; a God who looks not to results, but to effort : — All I could never be All men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. (" Rabbi ben Ezra.") This intense faith would in itself afford ample consolation under the sting of... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : 25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 266 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: 25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : 24. But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : v 25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped;... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 268 pages
...which, from level stand, The low world laid its hand, 24. But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account;...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: 25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped;... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 pages
...Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : 24 But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account...-weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : 25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped;... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 518 pages
...level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher JAMES SAVAGE. Captain 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861 ; Major, June 23, 1862; Lieutenarit-Colonel,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : xxiv. But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed ' Into a narrow act, • i Fancies that broke through language... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account...All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This 1 was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and... | |
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Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 
