 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
 | Edith Augusta Sawyer - 1899 - 386 страница
...whatever of poetry belongs to them is present in full measure here. Gold-vin Smith. CHARLES DICKENS, 1812. FOR thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...me ; A brute I might have been, but would not sink Г the scale. Robert Browning. HE strikes a hundred lyres, a thousand strings, Yet one at heart are... | |
 | 1899 - 788 страница
...never grudge the throe! VII. For thence, — a paradox Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail : 40 What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. vin. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, 45 Whose spirit works lest arms and legs... | |
 | 1899 - 816 страница
...Which comforts while it mocks, — 532 VICTORIAN VERSE Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: 40 What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink VIII. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, 45 Whose spirit works lest arms and legs... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1899 - 786 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...mocks, — Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail : Whatj aspired to be, And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i'... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1900 - 44 страница
...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe. " For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale." The same essential idea, that man's true life is one not of fixed and final attainment, but of activity... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1900 - 886 страница
...ended, then As sure an end to men ; Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast? " For thence,— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale." — Rabbi Ben Ezra. " Oh, we're sunk enough here, God knows t But not quite so sunk that moments, Sure... | |
 | 1900 - 496 страница
...throe!" And if failure must be, there is success even in failure, where the prize is a worthy one : "What I aspired to be And was not comforts me: A brute...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale." Thus the struggle goes on, in which, for its very reverses, the soul is all the more sure of triumph... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1900 - 298 страница
...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! Which comforts while it mocks,— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: For thence,—a paradox What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been,... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1900 - 42 страница
...pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe. " For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, — Shall life succeed hi that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1901 - 314 страница
...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! ' For thence — a paradox. Which comforts while it...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.' Is it any wonder we love Browning? With him life is full of great things — of love and beauty and... | |
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