 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 466 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... | |
 | 1894 - 674 pages
...plumb " that he prizes most in himself. As artist, therefore, he would wish to express "All instincts immature, All purposes unsure That weighed not as his -work, yet swelled the man's amount." And yet, as he shows, the artist is impotent to do this except by most pitiful suggestions, for these... | |
 | Henry Austin Adams - Sermons, American - 1893 - 208 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, but swelled the man's account. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act ; Fancies...All men ignored in me — This I was worth to God." Let us be very sure, as S. Paul was, that in the sight of God we are just what we are. In the clearness... | |
 | Evelyn M. Noble - Society of Friends - 1893 - 120 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 escaped... | |
 | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - American literature - 1894 - 238 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...in me — This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." It may be a somewhat ethereal compensation which the poet here hints at, but on that... | |
 | American poetry - 1894 - 136 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. 99 Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1894 - 328 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...broke through language and escaped ; All I could never bo, All men Ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. HOME THOUGHTS FROM... | |
 | Constance Smith - English fiction - 1894 - 322 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...Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All T. could never be, All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped."... | |
 | Labor unions - 1916 - 620 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...to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke thro' language and escaped: :ver be, in me, , whose wheel the pitcher shaped. — Robert AGATHERING... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 860 pages
...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...through language and escaped : All I could never be, XXVL Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our... | |
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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. 
