 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.  Harvard Memorial Biographies - Page 327edited by - 1866 - 517 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 64 pages
...unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed 145 Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language...me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 150 Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 474 pages
...swelled the man's amount: All purposes unsure, Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, xxv. Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All...This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel XXVI. Why time spins fast, why passive... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 202 pages
...man's 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 was worth to God, whose wheel escaped ; Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies... | |
 | 1911 - 660 pages
...dieting, and Dr. Gebhart— but then his moderation is well known. Dr. Mettler's classic address: " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped." While no one understands the cause of exophthalmic goiter, Dr. Crile's theory that fear causes enlargement... | |
 | 1897 - 560 pages
...brute, But would not sink i' the scale." And again, "All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, * * * All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God." That Browning, the poet of action, whose heroes are all fighters and whose saints are all soldiers,... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1901 - 982 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." The 'thought so exquisitely expressed in these lines is as true of the corporate 'being as... | |
 | 1888 - 844 pages
...its most revered representative ? W. OUTRAM TRI*TRAM. Lib: A LIVERPOOL CHILD. BY AGNES C. MAITLAND. "All, I could never be All men ignored in me. This I was worth to God — whose wheel the pitcher shaped." R. BROWXING. CHAPTER I. I HE was standing in the midst of a group of companions at their favourite... | |
 | Sir William Symington M'Cormick - 1889 - 196 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. • " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." * 1 James Lee's Wife. 2 Rabbi ben Ezra. BROWNING. 181 Life's success is not in attainment... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1889 - 276 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. XXVI. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - 1889 - 690 pages
...goodness, anil believe in a standard I can never reach, and take some comfort in thoughts like this : — " All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." March 18, 1869. ... I don't know that I ever saw William look brighter or better than this... | |
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