 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 328 pages
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " he answered " Yes. Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 416 pages
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 394 pages
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 414 pages
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 414 pages
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1890 - 376 pages
...more emphatic by a fully expressed contrast with something transitory. Browning has the following — That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Each member of the contrast is rendered impressive through the comparison to the other, the effect... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1890 - 396 pages
..."Grammarian's Funeral," Browning puts into four terse and epigrammatic lines the same truth :— This low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. A point which. Browning is never weary of illus- / trating is that to all men there come moments of... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 pages
...in the high aim, as I, " Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, " As, God be thanked, I do not ! "8 " That low man seeks a little thing to do, " Sees it...it ; " This high man with a great thing to pursue, " Does ere he knows it. 1 A Soul's Tragedy. a Paracelsus. 3 A Death in the Desert. 4 Old Pictures in... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 pages
...or earth's failure: "Wilt thou trust death or not?" He answered "Yes! "Hence with life's pale lure!" That low man seeks a little thing to do. Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great tiling to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1891 - 212 pages
...impulse, which for once had play unstifled ". — Cristina. Do we fail ? though we tried so hard : — That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses... | |
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That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. 
