 | 1856 - 430 ˹éÒ
...the same skill, Do your best whether winning or losing It If yon choose to play— Is my principle 1 Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's...be It what It will ! The counter our lovers staked w«s lost As surely as if It were lawful coin : And the sin 1 impute to each frustrate ghost Was, the... | |
 | 1856 - 506 ˹éÒ
...to serve for a test as a virtue. Do your best, whether winning or losing, if you choose to play : " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be what it will." Mr. Browning has such a perilous facility of putting himself into the place of the most... | |
 | 1884 - 882 ˹éÒ
...which otherwise they would never be allowed to enter. From philosophers who believe that a man must "contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will," these evil-doers deserve praise for their perseverance and energy. But beyond this nothing can be said... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 ˹éÒ
...boldly every whit, Venture as truly, use the same skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a...coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the virtue,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 ˹éÒ
...boldly every whit, Venture as truly, use the same skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play — is my principle ! Let a...staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : ' Was, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a crime, I say. You of the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 ˹éÒ
...boldly every whit, Venture as warily, use the same skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a...coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the virtue... | |
 | Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1876 - 334 ˹éÒ
...once dreamy and obstinate. " There shall be nothing mean, nothing sordid, nothing worldly in it. ' Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it may.' And my life's set prize is beauty." " You make a bad bargain, Hubert, and some day you will bitterly... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 400 ˹éÒ
...boldly every whit, Venture as truly, use the same skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play— is my principle ! Let a man...uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will. " Think earnestly upon any subject, investigate it sincerely, and you are sure to love it, Sir A. Helps... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 ˹éÒ
...the expression of the artificer's highest ideal. "Trusting his feeble, fullest sense," he would have "man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be it what it will ; for the sin of each frustrate ghost is the unlit lamp and the ungirt lion." "So shall the soul declare... | |
 | 1877 - 818 ˹éÒ
...that a man should do what he does with his might, — or as Mr. Browning puts it : " Let а тип contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ; " the work in which he is engaged must at least appear to him to be worth doing — the prize for which he... | |
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The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. 
