 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1878 - 992 pages
...thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instinctsSmmature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount." We plainly see that the apparent end, that which is the end indeed of one existence — is but the... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1879 - 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...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,... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 612 pages
...stops my despair ? This : — 'tis not what man Does which exalta him, but what man Would do I " 1 " All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson - Christian life - 1882 - 216 pages
...to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, I That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's...ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' Again, the sense of unrealized desire is an index of character we may regard with... | |
 | 1882 - 520 pages
...restore them one day perfected and completed ; a God who looks not to results, but to effort — " All I could never be All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." (Raid i ben Ezra.) This intense faith would in itself afford ample consolation under... | |
 | English periodicals - 1882 - 612 pages
...restore them one day perfected and completed ; a God who looks not to results, but to effort — " All I could never be All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." (Rabbi ben Ezra.) This intense faith would in itself afford ample consolation under... | |
 | English poetry - 1883 - 386 pages
...world's coarse thumb And ringer 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 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...swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed Fancies that broke through language and Into a narrow act, escaped; All I could never be, All men ignored... | |
 | M. L. Henry - 1883 - 30 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 his work, yet swelled the man's amount." All this, he says, the man or woman is worth to God " whose wheel the pitcher shaped." George Eliot,... | |
 | English poets - 1883 - 364 pages
...vcxx. yet swelled the Z* sarZy tc be packed \r.*s> * nartcir act, M* that broke thrccgh language and All, men 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... | |
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Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ; All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 
