 | Thomas Hughes - 1887 - 72 pages
...for instance, to the ring of it in the rugged and incisive >ords oí one of our strongest poets : " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it. This high man, with a great thing to purene, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit. This high... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1888 - 326 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... | |
 | Karl Pearson - 1888 - 458 pages
...craving for knowledge : — Did not he magnify the mind, show clear Just what it all meant? -:-. * # « That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. HISTORY. Alle wahre Geschichte hat uberall zuerst einen religiosen Zweck gehabt, und ist von religiosen... | |
 | George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 534 pages
..." a man whom to have known and loved is a lifelong possession ; to have lost, a lifelong regret." " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." APPENDIX I. Reprinted from " The Chronicles of the Collegiate Church or Free Chapel of All Saints,... | |
 | Abraham Willard Jackson - 1889 - 36 pages
...to be scaled, and these are for you. There is indeed a pathos that overhangs all great endeavor. " 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... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 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...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him — still loftier than the world... | |
 | Alexander Viets Griswold Allen - 1889 - 428 pages
...the search for God as' the only reality : and while he was still eagerly following the search, — " This high man, With a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." In the last year of his life he received a call to become the president of Princeton College. The call... | |
 | Alexander Viets Griswold Allen - 1889 - 426 pages
...search for God as the only reality : and while he was still eagerly following the search, — " Thia high man, With a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." In the last year of his life he received a call to become the president of Princeton College. The call... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 328 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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 344 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
