 | Robert Browning - 1896 - 550 pages
...boldly every whit, Venture as warily, use the same skill, If you choose to play! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's...frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Tho' the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the virtue (we issue join) How strive you ? De tt,fabula!... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1896 - 566 pages
...every whit, Venture as warily, use the same skill, — If you choose to play! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's...frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Tho' the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the virtue (we issue join) How strive you ? De te,... | |
 | Edward Moore - 1896 - 430 pages
...do so, but not therefore in every sense better. Note especially the following remarkable lines :— Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counters our lovers staked were lost As surely as if it were lawful coin: And the sin I impute to each... | |
 | Edward Moore - 1896 - 432 pages
...do so, but not therefore in every sense better. Note especially the following remarkable lines : — Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counters our lovers staked were lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to... | |
 | Edward Moore - 1896 - 422 pages
...do so, but not therefore in every sense better. Note especially the following remarkable lines : — Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counters our lovers staked were lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1896 - 680 pages
...can tell if death was not more merciful to them than life had been. OLife's Set By GG CHATTERTON. " Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be it what it will." "Do you so much admire it, then? To me it looks commonplace enough. You can see its exact ditto in... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1897 - 334 pages
...—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...coin : 'And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost K Is — the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1897 - 484 pages
...scarcely have admitted this — at least with regard to God. 1 C/. Browning's The Statue 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." See Jones's Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher, pp. Hi— 118.... | |
 | Richard Lewis Nettleship - 1897 - 466 pages
...the common terms of approval, or because it was easy to affix to it one of the common terms of blame. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! — the spirit of these lines appealed to him. The readiness to find good wherever there is a full pulse of... | |
 | Richard Lewis Nettleship - 1897 - 474 pages
...the common terms of approval, or because it was easy to affix to it one of the common terms of blame. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! to find good wherever there is a full pulse of the soul drew him to Browning and to Whitman, and... | |
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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. 
