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| James Harvey Tuttle - 1891 - 420 pages
...earth at least was the ladder without which we could not have climbed to heaven ? Browning says, — " As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, ' All good...helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul.' " And was not this thought borrowed from Paul ? " For all things are yours, — or the world, or life, or... | |
| 1892 - 636 pages
...physical and spiritual, will be full of the spirit of God. So sings one of Browning's sages : — " Let us not always say, ' Spite of this flesh, to-day...head, gained ground, upon the whole ! ' As the bird sings and wings, Let us cry, 'All good things Are ours ; nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh... | |
| Robert Browning - 1892 - 466 pages
...prize might hold To match those manifold Possessions of the brute, — gain most, as we did best ! XII. Let us not always say, " Spite of this flesh to-day...soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul ! " xin. Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its... | |
| Phillips Brooks, H. L. S., L. H. S. - 1892 - 384 pages
...be good. Both of those two injunctions are reasonable, and both are binding on us all. V. 229, 2 JO. As the bird wings and sings Let us cry: all good things...nor soul helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul. BROWNING. TO how many a saint the day and place where he first heard God's voice will be earth's one... | |
| Edward Berdoe - 1892 - 608 pages
...evil, so much good more ; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round." Abt Vogler. " Let us cry ' All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul ! ' " Rabbi Ben Ezra. " My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ;... | |
| Edward Berdoe - 1892 - 610 pages
...evil, so much good more ; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round." Abt Vogler. " Let us cry ' All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps sou] ! ' " Rabbi Ben Ezra. "My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched... | |
| Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...Ninth. Praise be Thine! I see the whole design, I who saw power, see now love perfect too. August Tenth. Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole! August Eleventh. As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, " All good things Are ours, nor soul helps... | |
| Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop - 1892 - 222 pages
...rather, provoke the "divine discontent" that leads to all high endeavor, to all growth. Browning says : Let us cry, All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh, now, more than flesh helps soul. APPENDIX. EXPLANATORY. OINCE the manuscript for this book was written,... | |
| Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1893 - 168 pages
...end divine ? " The Statue and the Bust. Browning speaks quite in his own name in JKabbi Ben Ezra. " Let us not always say, ' Spite of this flesh to-day...soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul ! ' " By reason of The Statue and the Bust and Fifine at the Fair, Browning's name has been joined... | |
| James Ashcroft Noble - 1893 - 234 pages
...passionate; no virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic,' — or those other words of Rabbi Ben Ezra, ' Let us not always say, Spite of this flesh to-day...soul helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul.'" How fresh this seems — how full of the sweet, sharp breath of the new day ! but here, too, Pope after... | |
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