 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1902 - 708 pages
...will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through. The sin I impnte 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 Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - 1903 - 700 pages
...wish I'd never saddled myself with that forgery!" "You do? That makes your case all the worse. " ' Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it may.' You should count the cost, and make up your mind first; not abandon your resolve for the first... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1904 - 336 pages
...(A. ix. 253). 1 Of. Browning, The Status and the Bust— Let a man contend to the uttermost For l>is life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter...coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Was — the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. 1 Claudian, Paneg. Manl. Theod. 1. It was not his own invention... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1904 - 88 pages
...SARTO What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes! Man has Forever. DECEMBER TENTH A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! DECEMBER ELEVENTH THE STATUE AND THE BUST Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and... | |
 | James W. Tuttleton, Kristin O. Lauer, Margaret P. Murray - 1992 - 592 pages
...begin to understand those lines of Browning's which have provoked so much criticism from moralists: Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be what it will! And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Was, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin,... | |
 | Phebe Cramer - 2006 - 400 pages
...Bust" (1855): 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! (p. 129) 22. Prince Hal, in Henry IV, has been the subject of psychological study by Aarons (1970)... | |
 | Emma Curtis Hopkins - 2007 - 381 pages
..."Here eyes do regard you in eternity's stillness; Choose well, your choice is brief and yet endless." "Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, let be what it will." In one of Isaiah's dreams, his tongue was touched with prophetic fire from off... | |
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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. 
