 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 504 pages
...not? Worthy of the sepulture to which they bore him so proudly. And this is the moral of the tale:— 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... | |
 | 1896 - 532 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... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1896 - 266 pages
...in the low aim succeed." 2 "JTis not what man Does which exalts him, but What man Would do ! " 3 " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." 4 " Not on the vulgar mass Called ' work ' must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had... | |
 | 1910 - 1216 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...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one His hundred's soon hit: The high man, aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 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...This high man, with a great thing to pursue. Dies ere be knows it. That low man goes on «HHi«g one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...Leave Now for dogs and 155 KOBl-KT BROWNING Man has Forever.' *A Grammarian's Funeral' I i8ssl 1. 8ï 1 That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Thai low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million,... | |
 | Margaret A. Edwards - 2002 - 252 pages
...letters to second hand booksellers." And again, "Working on Building Manuscript." As Browning said: That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he know it. [from "A Grammarian's Funeral," 1855] When he resigned from the Pratt Library, the Baltimore... | |
 | Anthony David Nuttall, Professor of English and Fellow A D Nuttall - 2003 - 256 pages
...to promise a resolution of our difficulties are these: That law man seelu a little thing to do, Secj it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he know it. That low man goes on adding one to one, Hu hundreds soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million,... | |
 | John S. Mackenzie - 2005 - 493 pages
...universe in which we live. The smaller our universe, the more easily is our happiness attained. " That tow man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it t This high man, with a great thing to puisne, Dies ere he knows it" " It is indisputable, " as Mill... | |
| |
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. 
