 | 1856 - 506 ˹éÒ
...on ; it is not in knowledge or in power that man is an image of his Creator ; it is in his will : " 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do." From this David can only draw one conclusion : " Would I suffer for him that I love ? So wilt Thou,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 ˹éÒ
...world's reward and repose, by the struggle in this. XVIII. "I believe it! 'tis Thou, God, that ghrest, 'tis I who receive : In the first is the last, in...face too ? why is it I dare Think but lightly of such impuissaucc ? what stops my despair ? This; — 'tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 ˹éÒ
...that givest, 'tis I who receive : In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe. All 's one gift : thou canst grant it moreover, as prompt...look that, even that in the face too ? why is it I Think but lightly of such impuissance ? what stops my despair ? This ; — 'tis not what man Does which... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 ˹éÒ
...worlds, life and nature, thy dread Sabaoth : " / will ? — the mere atoms despise me ! Why am I not loth " To look that, even that in the face too ? Why...such impuissance ? What stops my despair ? " This ; — 't is not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do ! \ " See the King — I would... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1879 - 324 ˹éÒ
...will, stream the worlds, life and nature, thy " / will ? — the mere atoms despise me ! Why am I not loth " To look that, even that in the face too ? Why...such impuissance ? What stops my despair ? " This ; — 't is not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do ! " See the King — I would... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1883 - 308 ˹éÒ
...leaving the consequences as " (rod's concern;" that "the soul can never taste of death ;" that " Ч is not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do;" and, that " There remainetb a rest for the people ot God." 1883.] THE DIAL. [April, ALMOST simultaneously... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 ˹éÒ
...worlds, life and nature, thy dread Sabaoth : I will ? — the mere atoms despise me ! Why am I not spray, And vanquished hearts, sick with remorse and failing, Moan like the waves at set of autumn da ? Whit stops my despair ? This; — 'tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 ˹éÒ
...not the beasts' : God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be." {Death in the Drseri.) " 'Tis not what Man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do." {Saul.) "for mankind springs Salvation by each hindrance interposed ; They climb." {Sardelle.) " They... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1881 - 1006 ˹éÒ
...not the beasts' : God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be." .(Death in the Desert.) " 'Tis not what Man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do." (Saul.) " for mankind springs Salvation by each hindrance interposed ; They climb." (Sordello.) " They... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1883 - 308 ˹éÒ
...open these arms to the air. From thy will, stream the worlds, life and nature, thy dread Sabaoth : I will ? — the mere atoms despise me ! and why am...look that, even that in the face too ? why is it I Think but lightly of such impuissance ? what stops my despair ? This ; — 'tis not what man Does which... | |
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Could I wrestle to raise him from sorrow, grow poor to enrich, To fill up his life, starve my own out, I would — knowing which, I know that my service is perfect. 
