 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1883 - 814 pages
...So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That -neighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. Thoughts hardly to bo packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ; All I could never be,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet svelled the man's amount : XXV Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. XXVI Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet svelled the man's amount : XXV Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. XXVI Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why... | |
 | Amelia E. Barr - Man-woman relationships - 1885 - 344 pages
...with its six thousand years of gathered wisdom, may be wrong. CHAPTER VII. THE MAN AT DEATH'S DOOR. " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." IT must be remembered, however, that Mai' garet was bound by ties whose strength this... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1885 - 480 pages
...things done, that took the eye and had the price. Then, he continues — "Thoughts, that could scarce be packed Into a narrow act Fancies, that broke through...All men ignored in me This, I was worth to God!—" How like, yet how unlike, George Eliot ! The same ideas, but what a different feeling! And what is... | |
 | Immortality - 1885 - 282 pages
...that these are not for nothing — " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies which broke through language and escaped ; All I could never...ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." There is — who can deny ? — a sense of ruin and yet of dignity in man. It finds... | |
 | Immortality - 1885 - 280 pages
...Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies which broke through language and escaped ; j All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." There is — who can deny ? — a sense of ruin and yet of dignity in man. It finds... | |
 | Immortality - 1885 - 284 pages
...Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies which broke through language and escaped ; t All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." There is — who can deny ? — a sense of ruin and yet of dignity in man. 'It finds... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1885 - 466 pages
...lavishness of his stageappointments. In the one he strains every nerve after the expression of — " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped." l In the other his reserve and reticence are marked. In face of the adoption by Mr. Browning of a course... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1886 - 248 pages
...level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. So, take and use Thy work : Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what... | |
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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. 
