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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. "
The Sewanee Review - Page 366
1909
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Robert Browning: Chief Poet of the Age

William G. Kingsland - 1890 - 160 pages
...God (He loves the burthen) — God's task to make the heavenly period Perfect the earthen ? . . . . 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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Gustavus Adolphus and the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence

Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 394 pages
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*...
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Gustavus Adolphys and the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence

Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 414 pages
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*...
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Gustavus Adolphys and the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence

Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 414 pages
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*...
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English Composition and Rhetoric, Part 1

Alexander Bain - 1890 - 376 pages
...more emphatic by a fully expressed contrast with something transitory. Browning has the following — That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Each member of the contrast is rendered impressive through the comparison to the other, the effect...
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Gustavus Adolphus and the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence

Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 416 pages
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*...
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The Makers of Modern English: A Popular Handbook to the Greater Poets of the ...

William James Dawson - 1890 - 396 pages
..."Grammarian's Funeral," Browning puts into four terse and epigrammatic lines the same truth :— This low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. A point which. Browning is never weary of illus- / trating is that to all men there come moments of...
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Memorial Meeting Held at May Memorial Church, Jan. 9, 1890

Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 pages
...in the high aim, as I, " Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, " As, God be thanked, I do not ! "8 " That low man seeks a little thing to do, " Sees it...it ; " This high man with a great thing to pursue, " Does ere he knows it. 1 A Soul's Tragedy. a Paracelsus. 3 A Death in the Desert. 4 Old Pictures in...
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In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances

Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 pages
...or 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 does it: This high man, with a great tiling to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon...
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Browning's Message to His Time: His Religion, Philosophy, and Science

Edward Berdoe - 1891 - 212 pages
...impulse, which for once had play unstifled ". — Cristina. Do we fail ? though we tried so hard : — 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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