 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 344 pages
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " He answered, " Yes ! Hence with life's pale lure I " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 600 pages
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not? " he answered "Tea. " Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | Arthur Martin Wheeler - 1886 - 402 pages
...at, which is the measure of his greatness, for it is the noble aim which makes him great and good. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Simon had sought to accomplish no less a thing than to make England self-governing, that it might no... | |
 | Robert Browning, Hiram Corson - 1886 - 398 pages
...failure : no " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " He answered, " Yes ! Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. 86. Calculus: the stone. 88. Tussis : a cough. 95. hydroptic : hydropic, dropsical. That low man goes... | |
 | William Frederick J. Kaye - 1886 - 92 pages
...Saviour could say " It is finished :" but we must look to begin more than we can finish here below. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it,...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." 8 David, the man after God's own heart, prepared with all his might for the house of his God : but... | |
 | Arthur Martin Wheeler - 1886 - 402 pages
...which is the measure of his greatness, for it is the noble aim which makes him great and good. " Thai low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Simon had sought to accomplish no less a thing than to make England self-governing, that it might no... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 202 pages
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " He answered " Yes ! Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit, That, has the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 424 pages
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " He answered " Yes ! Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred 's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | 1897 - 560 pages
...difference between our ideals and our realizations. Nevertheless keep the ideal high. "That low man with a little thing to do, Sees it and does it ; This high...with a great thing to pursue. Dies ere he knows it. And yet we feel that the latter chose the better part. "Death led him at his grandest to the grave... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1887 - 270 pages
...of dwindling and of ultimate loss. We may compare with this the words of the Grammarian's Funeral, " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies e'er he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming... | |
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That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. 
