 | Edward Moore - 1896 - 430 หน้า
...do so, but not therefore in every sense better. Note especially the following remarkable lines :— Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counters our lovers staked were lost As surely as if it were lawful coin: And the sin I impute to each... | |
 | Edward Moore - 1896 - 432 หน้า
...do so, but not therefore in every sense better. Note especially the following remarkable lines : — Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counters our lovers staked were lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1896 - 680 หน้า
...can tell if death was not more merciful to them than life had been. OLife's Set By GG CHATTERTON. " Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be it what it will." "Do you so much admire it, then? To me it looks commonplace enough. You can see its exact ditto in... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1897 - 334 หน้า
...—is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will I The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as...coin : 'And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost K Is — the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. You of the... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1897 - 608 หน้า
...Whether we play with counters or coins, we must do our best to win : — " If you choose to play 1 — is my principle, Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it wil1." These people as surely lost their counter as if it were lawful coin. This moral has been much... | |
 | Richard Lewis Nettleship - 1897 - 466 หน้า
...the common terms of approval, or because it was easy to affix to it one of the common terms of blame. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! — the spirit of these lines appealed to him. The readiness to find good wherever there is a full pulse of... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 หน้า
...robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly." PROVERBS. Ck. XVII., ver. 12. " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! " R. BROWNING. The Statue and the Bust. " Let a man keep the aw,— any law, — and his way will... | |
 | Richard Lewis Nettleship - 1897 - 466 หน้า
...the common terms of approval, or because it was easy to affix to it one of the common terms of blame. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! to find good wherever there is a full pulse of the soul drew him to Browning and to Whitman, and... | |
 | Annie E. Holdsworth Hamilton - 1897 - 360 หน้า
...move, and heard the words : — She was silent, then she began again in a more assured tone : — " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will. ..." With face twitching, Franklin drew back from the window. It touched him whimsically to hear Browning... | |
 | Boston Browning Society - 1897 - 608 หน้า
...of blame for the ideal of such a student, whose one-sidedness he finds not tragic, but glorifying. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! That is Browning's creed, from first to last. I can conceive, then, no error more hopeless than to... | |
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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. 
