 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 218 pages
...life, but that he must set his heart on doing some one thing, and must be content not to do others. " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! " And the nymph is just what, according to him, a human being should not be. She is " a perfect round,"... | |
 | Hattie Tyng Griswold - 1889 - 324 pages
...moral ? " she said, taking the book and reading : — " 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 1 " " Yes, that seems to be the moral, does n't it ? " " Well, I like a man who makes a good fight... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 328 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...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. You of the virtue... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1890 - 584 pages
...whether for good or evil, that is the curse. Sluggish contentments the one great curse of existence. ' Let a man contend to the uttermost , For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! * * * • » ' And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost IB the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.'... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 344 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 set prize, be it what it will I The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1890 - 588 pages
...existence. ' Let a man contend to the uttermost t For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! ***** And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.' Without strenuous endeavour, we are ' left in God's contempt apart, With ghastly smooth life, dead... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 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 set prize, be it what it will! " Mr. Barrett, the father, never forgave his daughter. He died in 1857, eleven years after her marriage,... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 pages
...crime will do " As well, I reply, to serve for a test, " As a virtue golden through and through. " Let a man contend to the uttermost " For his life's set prize, be it what it may ! 1 Balaustion's Adventure. 2 Paracelsus. 3 Pacchiarotto. * Pippa Passes. 5 Rabbi Ben Ezra. *In... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - 1891 - 436 pages
...spirit in which Luther said peeea fortiter finds a powerful expression in The Statue and the Bust : Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. In the midst of... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - 1891 - 420 pages
...pp. 381, 397 ; Paracelsus, Hi. p. 143 ; Easter Day, § iv. 8 The Pope, 1644 ff. Statue and the Bust: Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! ***** And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin1. And again... | |
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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. 
