 But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, ' So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : xxv.  A Manual of Ethics - Page 84by John Stuart Mackenzie - 1897 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson - 1882 - 216 pages
...level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : ' But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed...account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, I That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: ' Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1883 - 382 pages
...stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could the price; value in a trice: But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed...swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed Fancies that broke through language and Into a narrow act, escaped; All I could never be, All men ignored... | |
 | M. L. Henry - 1883 - 36 pages
...level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice ; " But all the world's coarse thumb And finger failed...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount." All this, he says, the man or woman is worth to God " whose wheel the pitcher shaped." George Eliot,... | |
 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1883 - 814 pages
...from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice. But all the world's coarse thumb And finger failed...All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That -neighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. Thoughts hardly to bo packed Into a narrow... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : XXIV But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed...purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet svelled the man's amount : XXV Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : XXIV But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed...purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet svelled the man's amount : XXV Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1884 - 414 pages
...from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, Could value in a trice ; But all the world's coarse thumb And finger failed...plumb, So passed in making up the main account: all that must be duly reckoned when the time comes to speak fully of his action in the Catholic Church.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 344 pages
...level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : xxrv. But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : XXv. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 626 pages
...level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice: 24. But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed...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, Hiram Corson - 1886 - 360 pages
...intellectual knowledge, which is based on the phenominal, and must be more or less subject to dispute. 292 34. But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : 25Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped... | |
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