 | 1875 - 932 pages
...And fingers failed to plumb, 'So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, ЛП purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet...ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." For our practical guidance, our Lord's doctrine concerning the Divine rewards suggests... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 562 pages
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as...All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This 1 was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...world's coarse thumb And linger failed to plumh, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as...escaped ; All I could never be, All men ignored in me, T!iis 1 was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, not<? that Potter's wheel, That metaphor... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 240 pages
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as...through language and escaped ; All I could never be, Ay, note that potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1875 - 972 pages
...• So passed in making up the main account ; AH instincts immature, All purposes unsure, Tbaiveigbed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, faacies that broke through language, and escaped ; Allí could never be, All. men ignored in me, lia,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1879 - 548 pages
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure That weighed not as...ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' This passage explains better than any other the poet's eagerness to analyse character,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 570 pages
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as...ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive... | |
 | Mary Linskill - 1876 - 310 pages
...we— you and I — are God's work ; and His work cannot fail. Think of these words of Browning's — " 'All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' " The night passed, and sad days passed, yet not unquiet nor unhallowed days. Abel... | |
 | Elizabeth Charles - 1876 - 398 pages
...His hand Who saith, ' A whole I planned, Youth shows but half ; trust God, see all, nor be afraid? " All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. " Look thou not down, but up 1 To uses of a cup, The festal board, lamp's flash and... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - Women - 1877 - 406 pages
...hardly to be packed into a narrow act, fancies that broke through language and escaped; all instincts immature, all purposes unsure, that weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's account. All he could never be, all men ignored, this, was he worth to God whose wheel the pitcher... | |
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