 | Robert Browning - 1894 - 620 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 1 The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
 | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - 1894 - 238 pages
..."Was the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a crime, I say." Those lines : " Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be it what it will," might serve for a motto to nearly all that Browning has written. They have a harmless look, and might... | |
 | George Body - 1894 - 144 pages
...and then to turn aside ; to do that is to forfeit the blessing to which He is leading us. No,— " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! " Our LORD never sees reason to revoke any of His Calls ; He never calls a soul to any state in which... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1894 - 300 pages
...contention manhood grows, and by the lack of it manhood decays. If you choose to play, is my principle, Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be what it will. And this is sound doctrine. The clerk who does not strive to be the best clerk in the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1895 - 1066 pages
...uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will I The counter our lovers staked was lost As snrely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to...each frustrate ghost Is — the unlit lamp and the nngirt loin. Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the virtue (we issue join) How strive... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1895 - 1062 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 ! The counter pur lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1895 - 1070 pages
...same skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If yon choose to play I — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will I The counter pur lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1895 - 354 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 I " And the nymph is just what, according to him, a human being should not ba She is "a perfect round,"... | |
 | Frances Frederica Montrésor - 1895 - 476 pages
...APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 72 Fifth Avenue, New York. INTO THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES BY FF MONTRESOR ' Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be it what it will " NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY I895 Authorized Edition. HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY t_ ^ Octncateb... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1895 - 356 pages
...the Bust : " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will 1 ***** And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin."2 And again in the concentrated and moving pathos of The Lost Leader : " Best fight on well,... | |
| |