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 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! 7. For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe ! 7. For thence — a paradox Which comforts •while it...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. & What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 270 pages
...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe! 7. For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 268 pages
...hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! 7. For thence,—a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,— Shall life...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 300 pages
...Strive, -and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! 7. For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...succeed in that it seems to fail : What I aspired to be, -v And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 pages
...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; \ Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the V throe ! 7. For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks — Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail : jWhat I aspired to be, A And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - Resurrection - 1874 - 412 pages
...vigour 1 The student of Browning will recall countless passages in which he illuminates this truth. For thence- -a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. INTRODUC- of will of which under ordinary circumstances he is wholly unconscious. The crisis brings... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...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. 1 VIII. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs... | |
 | Songs - 1874 - 252 pages
...hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! For thenco, — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, — Shall...succeed in that it seems to fail ; What I aspired to bo And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. Not once... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grndge the throe ! For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play... | |
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