 | 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
...fears, and cares and doubts, All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw...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 - Authors, English - 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 - Authors, English - 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 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
...proud Of their half-reasons, faint aspirings, dim Struggles for truth, their poorest fallacies, Their prejudice, and fears, and cares, and doubts ; Which...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... | |
 | 1857 - 542 pages
...proud Of their half-reasons, i'aint aspirings, dim Struggles for truth, their poorest fallacies, Their prejudice, and fears, and cares, and doubts ; Which...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. All this I know not, and I failed. Let men Hegard me and the poet dead long ago — Who once loved... | |
 | American essays - 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1908 - 898 pages
...in his voice made the Russian officer turn and watch him as he went away. CHAPTEE XXIX. THE BARGAIN. Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. ' OH, yes,' Barlasch was saying, ' it is easier to die — it is that that you are thinking — it... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1903 - 872 pages
...watch him as he went away. CHAPTER XXIX. THE BARGAIN. Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, Bat dream of him and guess where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. ' OH, yes,' Barlasch was saying, ' it is easier to die — it is that that you are thinking — it... | |
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All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. 
