...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...

...ho'.d cheap the strain : Leant, nor account the pang: dare, never jrodge the throe: " For thence,—a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,— Shall life...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale." Boys and girls leaving this School will, I hope, increasingly realise this feeling: a sense of failure...

...far-off things And battles long ago. (vii.) Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art ! (viii.) What I aspired to be And was not comforts me ; A brute...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. (ix.) Once more upon the waters ! Yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows...

...pain, Strive, nor hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe ; For thence — a paradox, Which comforts while it...— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail." There is only one condition of all this divine deliverance — namely, letting God have his way with...

...souls, with their craving "to go on and not die " while striving after moral harmony and perfection. " For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks — Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail ; 1 In Memoriam, xxxvi. VOL. XXL— No. 3. 20 What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me ; A brute...

...account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! For thence—a paradox Which comforts while it mocksShall life succeed in that it seems to fail; What I aspired...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale." We shall cease from self-pity, from resentment and from rebellious complaint if we remember that there...

...the pang; dare, never grudge the throel For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it moc\s — Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What...comforts me; A brute I might have been, but would not sinl^ i' the scale. Aspiration so conceived was its own vital reward. To Browning the fulfillment of...

...delivered from all fear and from all sorrow. Black and White and Read All Over: The Ambiguities of Comedy For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...mocks, — Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail. Robert Browning. Rabbi Ben Ezra I found my parents' friends at the Hotel de Paris in the Cantonment....

...turns earth's smoothness rough. Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! 71 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 ood suspended in its course, Rolled back its impulse on his vacant brain. (1. 185-192) 17 At (1. 39—41) 75 Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached...

...pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; I earn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! vn For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. vm What is he but a brute Whose flesh has soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want...