 | Alexander Balmain Bruce - 1899 - 456 pages
...whatever their aims. Indifference, lukewarmness, halfheartedness, is for him the unpardonable sin: ' Let a man contend to the uttermost, For his life's set prize, be it what it will.' 4 Does a man leap from a tower to test his faith, he holds his act rational, though it ends in death... | |
 | Alexander Balmain Bruce - 1899 - 456 pages
...whatever their aims. Indifference, lukewarmness, halfheartedness, is for him the unpardonable sin : ' Let a man contend to the uttermost, For his life's set prize, be it what it will.'4 Does a man leap from a tower to test his faith, he holds his act rational, though it ends in... | |
 | William Aspenwall Bradley, George Sidney Hellman - 1900 - 434 pages
...omitted; then the story, in a finer and saner way than Browning's poem, might have set forth the moral Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The character of Elizabeth is well done, and contrasts effectively with that of her higher-minded lover.... | |
 | Dolf Wyllarde - 1901 - 456 pages
...should read Browning. That is exactly his creed — " ' If you choose to play I it 's my principle, Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will. The counter our lover 's staked, was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin ; And the sin I impute to each frustrate... | |
 | Richard Lewis Nettleship - 1901 - 478 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 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 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Jones - 1902 - 376 pages
...lukewarm in goodness. Whether you seek good or evil, play for the counter or the coin, stake it boldly ! " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's...coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost 1 Bishop Blougram. "Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.... | |
 | William Straton Bruce - 1902 - 400 pages
...They go from strength to strength ; every one of them appeareth before God in Zion. — SONS OF KORAH. 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. — BROWN-INO. Who can change the desires of man ? —MARCUS AURELIUS. CHAPTER... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1902 - 716 pages
..." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through. The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is — the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin." Shall it then be said that it were better — more in accordance with the ideal of moral selfhood —... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1902 - 708 pages
..." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through. The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is — the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin." Shall it then be said that it were better — more in accordance with the ideal of moral selfhood —... | |
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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. 
