 | Robert Browning - 1830 - 426 pages
...great moral of the poem, , which is explicitly set forth at the end, namely, " thatj3U£_bjjniai»~ • speech is naught, our human testimony false, our fame and human , estimation, words and wind. Why take the artistic way to prove j so much? Because, it is the glory and good of Art, that Art_ remains... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...But the cause of " The Ring and th» Book " is a moral and religious lesson, — " This lesson, that our human speech is naught, Our human testimony false,...our fame And human estimation, words and wind." The ten poems are ten sermons on the same thesis ; and each is shaped by a logical process. The story is... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...But the cause of " The Ring and the Book " is a moral and religious lesson, — " This lesson, that our human speech is naught, Our human testimony false,...our fame And human estimation, words and wind." The ten poems are ten sermons on the fame thesis ; and each is shaped by a logical process. The story is... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pages
...of civilisation. The moral which he draws at the end of the present poem is " This lesson — that our human speech is naught, Our human testimony false...— our fame And human estimation words and wind." Truth, he tells us, comes out, not in the long-drawn collections of reason, but in the sudden interjections... | |
 | 1869 - 386 pages
...judgments, the difference in minds, the difference in eyes that see the minds. " This lesson, that our human speech is naught, Our human testimony false, our fame And human estimation, words and wind." Never was dogmatism rebuked more sternly than in these pages. Never was charity more bravely taught.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1872 - 248 pages
...(Marry and amen !) learn one lesson hence Of many which whatever lives should teach : This lesson, that our human speech is naught, Our human testimony false, our fame And human estimation words and wind. 840 Why take the artistic way to prove so much ? Because, it is the glory and good of Art, That Art... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...(Marry and amen !) learn one lesson hence Of many which whatever lives should teach : This lesson, that our human speech is naught, Our human testimony false, our fame And human estimation words and wind. Why take the artistic way to prove so much ? Because, it is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 550 pages
...theory of truth. For while the lesson he draws from the whole is <... That our human speech is nought, Our human testimony false, our fame And human estimation words and wind,' the poem itself is a declaration of the reality of truth, of the utter blunder of the common conclusion... | |
 | William Morris Hunt - 1878 - 148 pages
...(Marry and amen !) learn one lesson hence Of many which whatever lives should teach : This lesson, that our human speech is naught, Our human testimony false, our fame And human estimation words and wind. Why take the artistic way to prove so much ? Because, it is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 562 pages
...of truth. For while the lesson he draws from the whole is ' . . . That our human speech is nought, Our human testimony false, our fame And human estimation words and wind,' the poem itself is a declaration of the reality of truth, of the utter blunder of the common conclusion... | |
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Why take the artistic way to prove so much? Because, it is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. 
