 The spark of truth was struck from out our souls — Made all of me, descried in the first glance, Seem fair and honest and permissible love O' the good and true — as the first glance told me There was no duty patent in the world Like daring try be...  The Ring and the Book - Page 310by Robert Browning - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1902 - 804 pages
...world Like daring try be good and true myself, Leaving the shows of things to the Lord of Show is» And Prince o' the Power of the Air. Our very flight,...and not beasts — beasts and not stocks and stones ! — ]9K Had the liar's lie been trueone pin-point speck, Were I the accepted suitor, free o' the... | |
 | Minnie Gresham Machen - Bible - 1903 - 304 pages
...with chains and in fetters ; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness. Leaving the shows of things to the Lord of Show And Prince o' the Power of the Air. — Bk. VI, 1. 1820. C. . . . according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the... | |
 | Charles Harold Herford - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 332 pages
...strange sad face, and hears once more the pitiful appeal, all hesitations vanish, and he sees no duty " Like daring try be good and true myself, Leaving the shows of things to the Lord of Show." With the security of perfect innocence he flings at his judges as the " final fact" — " In contempt... | |
 | Charles Harold Herford - Fiction - 1905 - 340 pages
...strange sad face, and hears once more the pitiful appeal, all hesitations vanish, and he sees no duty " Like daring try be good and true myself, Leaving the shows of ti>ings to the Lord of Show." With the security of perfect innocence he flings at his judges as " the... | |
 | United States - 1908 - 812 pages
...bounds! I say, Endeavor to be good, and better still, And best! Success is naught, endeavor 's all." "No duty patent in the world Like daring try be good...Lord of Show And Prince o" the Power of the Air." He was a man of great breadth or catholicity of spirit and was absolutely fearless in quest of truth;... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower - Periodicals - 1911 - 616 pages
...us devise "modus operandi" to relieve the unemployed and the many innocent ones dependent upon them. "No duty patent in the world Like daring try be good...Lord of Show And Prince o' the Power of the Air." — Robert Browning. THE EDITOR'S QUIET HOUR By BO Flower TOLSTOI : PROPHET, ILLUMINATOR AND SEER IN... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1897 - 1040 pages
...better still, And best t Success is naught, endeavor's all. 27 — FIFTH SERIES, VOL. XIII. There is no duty patent in the world Like daring try be good...the shows of things to the lord of show And prince »' the power of the air. And still more beautifully conies out this thrilling thought, still more... | |
 | Robert Browning - Executions and executioners - 1912 - 546 pages
...glance, Seem fair and honest and permissible love O' the good and true — as the first glance told me There was no duty patent in the world Like daring try be good and true myself, 1819 Leaving the shows of things to the Lord of Show And Prince o' the Power of the Air. Our very flight,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1915 - 810 pages
...world Like daring try be good and true myself, Leaving the shows of things to the Lord of Show 1820 And Prince o' the Power of the Air. Our very flight,.... . Why, men — men and not boys — boys and not babesBabes and not beasts — beasts and not stocks and stones ! — • ]s» I lad the liar's lie... | |
 | Ohio State University - 1928 - 412 pages
...month; or never, or now, revenge! But a wound to the soul? That rankles worse and worse. (R&B 4.1520-24) Leaving the shows of things to the Lord of Show And...and not beasts — beasts and not stocks and stones! — (R&B 6.1793-1798) The variations have a strong tendency to occur in clusters, as if the swing established... | |
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