 My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.  The Contemporary Review - Seite 1451867Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1867 - 396 Seiten
...the void, When God hath made the pile complete." So Browning, in his "Apparent Failure," expresses his belief that the failure is not irretrievable—...Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began the best, can't end the worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove all accurst." THE PHYSICAL SUFFERINGS... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 Seiten
...It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being meek than fierce ! It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worse, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst, Well, we find no fault with that ; doubtless it is... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 Seiten
...wiser being good than bad ; It 's safer being meek than fierce : It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. EPILOGUE. EPILOGUE. FIEST SPEAKEE. 1. ON the first of the Feast of Feasts, The Dedication Day, When... | |
 | 1901 - 834 Seiten
...so are our days. Amid shattering of our dearest desires, we ever echo the words of the poet: — " My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst." But, even at this, something remains to tell ere we can see fully why, once at least in a lifetime,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 300 Seiten
...wiser being good than bad ; It 's safer being meek than fierce : It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. EPILOGUE. EPILOGUE. FIRST SPEAKER. • i. ON the first of the Feast of Feasts, The Dedication Day,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 270 Seiten
...wiser being good than bad ; It 's safer being meek than fierce : It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, .a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. EPILOGUE. EPILOGUE. FIRST SPEAKER, as David. 1. On the first of the Feast of Feasts, The Dedication... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 266 Seiten
...It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; EPILOGUE. EPILOGUE. FIRST SPEAKER, as David. 1. On the first of the Feast of Feasts, The Dedication... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 Seiten
...of those • who most abhorred Their life in Paris yesterday," and tracing, with his usual eubtlet7 and power, the probable history of each, utters his...God blessed once, prove accurst." The same feeling find» utterance in yet more noble words in the prayer of "Rabbi Ben Ezra": " So take and use Thy work... | |
 | Charles Marshall (novelist.) - 1867 - 322 Seiten
...II'H wiser being good than bad ; It's Hafcr beiug meek than fierce ; It's fitter being Bane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth erer stretched ; That after Last returns the First, Tho" n wide compass round be fetched ; That what... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 Seiten
...Its wiser being good than bad ; Its safer being meek than fierce ; Its fitter being sane than mad ; My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...returns the first, Though a wide compass round be sctched, That what begins best can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once — prove accurs'd. WWN THE... | |
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