...once dreamy and obstinate. " There shall be nothing mean, nothing sordid, nothing worldly in it. ' Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it may.' And my life's set prize is beauty." " You make a bad bargain, Hubert, and some day you will bitterly...

...same skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play— is my principle ! Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will. " Think earnestly upon any subject, investigate it sincerely, and you are sure to love it, Sir A. Helps...

...that a man should do what he does with his might, — or as Mr. Browning puts it : " Let а тип contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ; " the work in which he is engaged must at least appear to him to be worth doing — the prize for which he...

...the expression of the artificer's highest ideal. "Trusting his feeble, fullest sense," he would have "man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be it what it will ; for the sin of each frustrate ghost is the unlit lamp and the ungirt lion." "So shall the soul declare...

...here should sublimate My being ; hud I signed the bond Süll оно must lend some lifo beyond. (8) Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will. The Statue ami The .¡lusts, II. Explain the poems Women and Hoses and Evelyn Jluft, illustrating youi...

...many ways and places. The Statue and tlie Bust teaches very much the same lesson . , (p. 446) . . . ' Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will — * • > * * Лш1 thf, sin I iinpiUc io each frustrate ghost Js, the unlit lutnp anil tlic unyirt...

...many ways and places. The Statue and the Bust teaches very much the same lesson . . (p. 446) . . . ' Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will — ***** And the sin limpule to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.' A frustrate...

...he put upon mankind in general. The constitution of his mind was intensely practical and positive. ' Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be it what it will,' was his theory. What he most deprecates is ' the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.' He looked upon man,...

...and places. The Statue and (he. Bust teaches very much the same lesson . . (p. 44fi) , . . ' Let n man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will — ***** And the sin I impute to each frustrate glwst Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.' A frustrate...

...Shakespeare. No doubt the drift of his presentation of life, as a whole, is that a man should " . . . . contend to the uttermost, For his life's set prize, be it what it will." But, on the other hand, he gives special prominence to another aspect of life often overlooked, when...