 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...the world's coarse thumb And finger could not plumb, So passed in making up the main account: Though hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that...ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note the Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 460 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...act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; AH I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1890 - 676 pages
...coarse thumb and finger failed to plumb, — there are all instincts immature, all purposes unsure, •" Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped;" All that we could never be, all that men ignored in us, this we are worth to God. And then putting life's... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 344 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 : xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 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: xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped;... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 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... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - Calendars - 1890 - 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 his work, yet swelled the man's account, — Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act ; Fancies that broke through language and... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1890 - 664 pages
...necessary to be done, but not reckoned as the highest, not to compare with " instincts immature " and " purposes unsure " — That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. Hear the estimate of work which follows — Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 458 pages
...So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That wrighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : Thoughts hardly to 1« packed Into a narrow act. Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be,... | |
 | Charles Cuthbert Hall - Presbyterian Church - 1891 - 372 pages
...continually before our blundering life. He knows us not only as we are, but as we mean to be. " All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as...in me, — This I was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitcher shaped." * Thou knowest all things ; all the secret of the Father, all the counsel of the Spirit,... | |
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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. 
