| 1864 - 618 pages
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| Robert Browning - 1835 - 234 pages
...cares, and doubts ; All with a touch of nobleness, for all Their error, all ambitious, upward tending, Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him : All this I knew not, and I fail'd ; let men Regard me, and the poet dead long ago Who loved too rashly... | |
| 1882 - 844 pages
...cares and doubts, All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him, All this I knew not, and I failed. (P. 195.) It is this love of mankind, even in its i meanest and... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 pages
...power of mere knowledge or experience, and that they were — • " all ambltious, upwards tending, Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But...may be. And do their best to climb and get to him." He had, moreover, a sentient perception, " beyond the comprehension of our narrow thought, but somehow... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 pages
...that they were — - " all ambitious, upwards tending, Like planU in mines, which never saw the ftan, But dream of him and guess where he may be, And do their best to clunb and get to him." He had, moreover, a sentient perception, "beyond the comprehension of our narrow... | |
| 1912 - 666 pages
...See King's ' Classical and Foreign Quotations,' 3rd edition, p. 317. EDWARD BENSLY. (11 S. iv. 469.) Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But...may be. And do their best to climb and get to him. Browning's ' Paracelsus,' last page. TSO MILITARY EXECUTIONS (11 S. iv. 8, 57, 98. 157, 193, 237, 295,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 406 pages
...cares, and doubts ; Which all touch upon nobleness, despite Their error, all tend upwardly though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. All this I knew not, and I failed. Let men Regard me, and the poet dead long ago Who once loved rashly... | |
| 1912 - 586 pages
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| 1902 - 902 pages
...and weakness alike, " upward tending, all though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw the ran, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him." It is the same dominant chord of courage. All the battle cries of all the ages are in it, and the confidence... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 448 pages
...mind and heart — an example which we can only follow afar off and feel after, Like plants or vines which never saw the sun, But dream of him and guess...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. Again, no young man can rise from the perusal of euch lives as those of Buxton and Arnold, without... | |
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