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
| Robert Browning - 1887 - 462 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...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 - 1887 - 202 pages
...Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : But all, the world's coarse thumb And ringer failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account...amount : Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow fact, Fancies that broke through language and All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I... | |
| Robert Browning - 1887 - 64 pages
...its mind, could value in a trice: But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, 140 So passed in making up the main account: All instincts...swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed 145 Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped: All I could never be, All men... | |
| Robert Browning - 1887 - 228 pages
...mind, could value in a trice : XXIV. But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, 14° So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount ; xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed MS Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped... | |
| Robert Browning - 1887 - 474 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...making up the main account; All instincts immature, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: All purposes unsure, Thoughts hardly to... | |
| 1895 - 748 pages
...individual power, is a fact of which we often lose sight, and judge by the external standard of results:— Not on the vulgar mass called " work " must sentence...making up the main account; All instincts immature, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. All purposes unsure, This I was worth to... | |
| Robert Browning - 1889 - 278 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...to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; i All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's... | |
| Charles Gore - 1890 - 594 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...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. '-' Cf. A. Knox, Remains, ii. 138. inmost being of man rises to the realization of its true life, to... | |
| Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 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...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 - 1890 - 344 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...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... | |
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