For thence, - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail : What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i Dramatis Personae - Страница 79написао/ла Robert Browning - 1864 - 250 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
| 1895 - 1028 страница
...1 For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it raocka — ; Shall life succeed in that it seema to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 30 FIFTH SERIES, VOL. XI. THE ARENA. " DIVINE REVELATION." THE article under the above title by the... | |
| Robert Browning - 1895 - 218 страница
...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; 35 Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! VII. For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...succeed in that it seems to fail : What I aspired to be, 4° And was not, comforts me ; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. VIII. What... | |
| Robert Browning - 1895 - 1070 страница
...pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe 1 For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail : What 1 aspired to be, And was not, comf orta me : A brute 1 might have been, bat would not sink V the scale.... | |
| Hugh Walker - 1895 - 352 страница
...For thence,—a paradox ^' Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: p What I aspired to be, ' ci And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the s .- 6> t Here too we find, what in such a context we might leSS ex P ect Browning's healthy belief... | |
| Charles Macauley Stuart - 1896 - 328 страница
...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe ! VII. For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. -VIII. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs... | |
| 1896 - 1224 страница
...Have blundered into Paradise. «. FRANCIS THOMPSON— Epilogue. St. 2. 464 PARADOX. PARTING. PARADOX. 91. Learning hath a. ROBERT BROWNING — Rabbi- Ben-Ezra. St. 7. Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 страница
...deeper reading and more noble thinking of Browning, it is enough. If not, it is well, but not so well. For "Thence a paradox, which comforts while it mocks:...fail? What I aspired to be, and was not, comforts me." VICTOR HUGO'S CREED. BY JAMES B. BAG LET. Victor Hugo believed in God ; there is hardly a page of his... | |
| Robert Browning - 1896 - 562 страница
...Strive, and hoIITcheap "ffie strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe! VII. For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...succeed in that it seems to fail : What I aspired to be, 40 And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. VIII. What... | |
| Robert Browning - 1896 - 550 страница
...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! VII. For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...succeed in that it seems to fail ; What I aspired to be, 40 And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. vin. What... | |
| Arthur Fraser Sim - 1896 - 304 страница
...aim is where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. Browning is often very fine. He says : — " What I aspired to be, and was not, comforts me ; A brute I might have been, but would not sink the scale." If I may venture to advise you, let me pray you not to dwell too much on the failure to... | |
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