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 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 454 pages
...King's distress The cause of his long error — one mistake Of her past oracle) " Sordello, wake ! God has conceded two sights to a man — One, of men's...whole work, time's completed plan, The other, of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completeness : what 's dispersed Save hope of that supreme... | |
 | Great Britain - 1886 - 924 pages
...their birth. Economic laws only act quickly when there is intelligence and enterprise to which they they can appeal. Education of the right kind ought...always before them, to take care that they do not, like Sordcllo, drawn aside by the pursuit of some ^•mi-socialistic will-o'-the-wisp, fail to see and to... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - Slavery - 1869 - 714 pages
...duties, there was the vision of future perfection, and the present obligation, hard, painful, bloody. " God has conceded two sights to a man — One of men's...whole work, time's completed plan, The other of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completeness." So Joshua might have seen the infinite... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - History - 1869 - 680 pages
...duties, there was the vision of future perfection, and the present obligation, hard, painful, bloody. " God has conceded two sights to a man — One of men's...whole work, time's completed plan, The other of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completeness." So Joshua might have seen the infinite... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...menu In the second of his two poems, Paracelsus (1835) and Sordello (1840), Eobert Browning wrote. " God has conceded two sights to a man — One of men's...whole work, time's completed plan ; The other of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completeness." He taught, as Elizabeth Barrett Browning... | |
 | James Platt - Ethics - 1878 - 218 pages
...concurrence and adaptation of these to the design, the very best of speculative projects may miscarry." " God has conceded two sights to a man : One of men's...whole work, time's completed plan ; The other of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completion." — BROWNING. We look on the far hills towards... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 720 pages
...work of men. In the second of his two poems, " Paracelsus " and " Bordello," Robert Browning wrote : " God has conceded two sights to a man, — One of men's...whole work, time's completed plan; The other of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completeness." He taught, as Elizabeth Barrett Browning... | |
 | Robert Browning - Poetry - 1881 - 1006 pages
...epochs in a life- time, every task In one ! " So should the sudden city bask p. 401 "Sordello, wake! God has conceded two sights to a man — One, of men's...whole work, time's completed plan, The other of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completeness : what 's Where is the Vanity ? p. 177-8... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...should the sudiltn city ba-sk p. 401 "Sordello, wake! God fias coni-fdfd tiro sight» to а там — One, of men's whole work, time's completed plan, The other of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completeness : what 's dispersed Save hope, of that supreme... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...another point of view with human aspiration, he teaches a like lesson : — " God has conceded two eights to a man — One of men's whole work, time's completed plan ; The other of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completion." In all his subsequent poetry Mr. Browning... | |
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