He fixed thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance, This Present, thou, forsooth, wouldst fain arrest : Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed. Dramatis Personae - Page 86by Robert Browning - 1864 - 250 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1865 - 826 pages
...into thee, That was, is, and shall be : Time's wheel runs back or stops ; Potter and clay endure. " He fixed thee 'mid this dance Of plastic circumstance,...This present, thou, forsooth, wouldst fain arrest : f Machinery just meant To give thy soil its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed.... | |
| Songs - 1874 - 252 pages
...was, is, and shall be : Time's wheel runs back or stops ; Potter and clay endure. He fixed thee midst this dance Of plastic circumstance, This present,...Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try then and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed. What though the earlier grooves Which ran the laughing... | |
| Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...and clay endure. XXVIII. He fixed thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance, This Present, them, forsooth, wouldst fain arrest : Machinery just meant...thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed. XXIX. What though the earlier grooves Which ran the laughing loves Around thy base, no longer pause... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be : Time's wheel runs back or stops ; Potter and clay endure. He fixed thee 'mid this dance Of plastic circumstance,...thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed. What though the earlier grooves Which ran the laughing loves Around thy base, no longer pixxise and... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be : Time's wheel runs back or stops : Potter and clay endure. He fixed thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance,...thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed. What though the earlier grooves Which ran the laughing loves Around thy base, no longer pause and press?... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be : Time's wheel runs back or stops i Potter and clay endure. He fixed thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance,...thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed. What though the earlier grooves Which ran the laughing loves Around thy base, no longer pause and press?... | |
| Mary Linskill - 1876 - 310 pages
...CHAPTER III. ABREPTUS. " He fixed thee 'mid this dance Of plastic circumstance, This Present, thoii forsooth would'st fain arrest ; Machinery just meant...Try thee and turn thee forth sufficiently impressed. Eabbi Ben Ezra : R BROWNING. AN old man singing the songs of his youth in a high quavering tuneless... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1890 - 548 pages
...were none other in the whole universe. ' He fixed thee 'mid this dance Of plastic circumstance . . . Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try...thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed.' But our lives here fall short of their ideal : the servant of God finds each day how hard it is to... | |
| Ada Ellen Bayly - 1879 - 446 pages
...passed between brother and sister, and Esperance was borne swiftly away to the North. CHAPTEE XII. " He fixed thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance....Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed ! " B. Browning. THEEB can be few people, who have not, at some time in their life, felt the utter... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 316 pages
...logically justified. Musicians and poets don't reason: they see and hear and assume, and then sing— " God fixed thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance,...fain arrest: Machinery just meant To give thy soul intent, Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed." This then is the foremost fact of life,... | |
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