...Bust. The poet here seems to prefer activity to inaction, even when the end in sight is a bad one: " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will." But suddenly, in the last stanza, he turns the tables upon the complacently virtuous, with "the unlit...

...there is always hope ; the unpardonable sin is his who sets his hand to the plough and looks back. ' Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be it what it will ; ' because it is the intensity of a man's feeling that is the measure of his capabilities, the test...

...short life of Oswald. Isben preaches here just what Browning does in "The Statute and the Bust," " The sin I impute to' each frustrate ghost " Is the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in view was a vice, I say." pressed with his genius. For the types are many and there is a wonderful reality...

...salvation depends on his power of sinking himself, and all else, for the attainment of some one thing:— " 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, Though the...

...sternest ! Bring the real times back, confessed Still better than our very best! January Twenty-third. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will. January Twenty -fourth. I go to prove my soul! I see my way as birds their trackless way, I shall arrive!...

...counters or coins, we must do our best to win : — • " 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." These people as surely lost their counter as if it were lawful coin. This moral has been much disputed...

...conveyed through the piquantly sorrowful story of Duke Ferdinand and the Lady Riccardi he declared: — " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be what it will ! " But the imaginative poet was as capable of romancing about himself as about his fictitious...

...strength. Indifference would have been reason for despair. " 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." The Statue and the Bust. In much the same spirit Luther was wont to urge, " Pecca fortiter." And the Pope...

...vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view. " 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." Those lines :...

...concentration in that life. It maybe on money. If so, remember nevertheless Browning's lines, — " Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be it what it will ! " If money is the thing that you most prize in the world ; if love of child and love of home and...