 | Robert Browning - 1883 - 308 pages
...and woman seen clearly " the end " of life, though " a crime," they had not so failed of it : — " The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as...coin : And the sin I impute to .each frustrate ghost " Was, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. Though the end in sight was a crime, I say." " A Light Woman... | |
 | 1887 - 708 pages
...entered in the book of Life, Were God's desire at noon." This reminds us of Mr. Browning's dogma : — " The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin." All human love is but a part of the love wherewith God loves us. This is the secret both of the " Vita... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1885 - 466 pages
...the same skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play." And again : — " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize." Looking at Browning's female characters as a whole there seemed no reason to suppose that man in this... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 600 pages
...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...lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful com : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost "Was, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 344 pages
...same skill, Do your best, whether winning or los ing it, If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's...will ! The counter, our lovers staked, was lost As surnly as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrat« ghost LOVE AMONG THE RUINS.... | |
 | Al Sirat society, Oakland, Calif - 1886 - 64 pages
...most cherishes. Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds a way I Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will. "Tis a life long toil till our lump be leaven— The better I What's come to perfection perishes. 'Tis... | |
 | Charles Gordon Ames - 1886 - 36 pages
...road we may as well set the foot down firmly. All character collapses from doing things by the halves. "The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp, and the ungirt loin." If one will live by the inward law, it will not do to heed the popular noises. As we honor John Brown... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 566 pages
...though " a crime," they had not so failed of it: — " If you choose to play — is my principle ! Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's...coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost "Was, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. Though the end in sight was a crime, I say.". " A Light Woman... | |
 | 1887 - 460 pages
...conquest. He must have definiteness of aim, a thorough knowledge of tactics, and the determination to " Contend to the uttermost, For his life's set prize, be it what it will." The first step in the method of success Browning points out in the lines : "Image the whole, then execute... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 pages
...true spirit of Luther's Pecca fortiter, writes — The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each...frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. ' Dis Aliter Vituin and Respectability are variations on the same theme. Love, then, in life has sovereign... | |
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And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is — the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. 
