| Robert Browning - 1890 - 306 pages
...other, Not the moon's same side, born late in Florence, Dying now impoverished here in London. God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two...world with, One to show a woman when he loves her! 'XVIII. This I say of me, but think of you, Love! This to you — yourself my moon of poets! Ah, but... | |
| William Wallace - Philosophers - 1890 - 240 pages
...say, there are two Schopenhauers in the field. Even the meanest of God's creatures, says the poet, " Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her." Schopenhauer's beloved was no mortal maiden ; but an august vision — or was it a reality ? — of... | |
| John White Chadwick - Poetry - 1891 - 232 pages
...nor disunite us, Life bears Love's cross, death brings Love's crown." DINAH MULOCK CRAIK. TO EBB GOD be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two...world with, One to show a woman when he loves her. This I say of me, but think of you, Love ! This to you — yourself my moon of poets ! Ah, but that... | |
| Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Congregational churches - 1891 - 320 pages
...dual expression of any common life. The poet was a philosopher who wrote of the two natures : — "... One to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her." The private life of a man of public importance is always approached with eagerness, often with uneasiness,... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...other lives, God willing. «i. God he thanked, the meanest of his creatnres Boasts two sonl-sides, — one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her ! xvii. Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas, Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, Wrote one song —... | |
| England - 1891 - 916 pages
...? Does not Browning say : — " God be thanked, the meanest of His creatures Boasts two-soul sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her " ? I don't suppose that I am the meanest of His creatures, but I'm not as good as you, dear. There... | |
| 1891 - 690 pages
...revenge too fierce. But there is another side. Even men like these may have ' two soul-sides, one to^face the world with, one to show a woman when he loves her.' In the quiet uplands round St. Mary's Loch, beside a roaring torrent, are the ruins of an old tower,... | |
| Mrs. W. K. Clifford - Love-letters - 1892 - 300 pages
...am. You are certain to find that out anyhow. And yet, why should you ? Does not Browning say: "God be thanked, the meanest of His creatures, Boasts two...world with, One to show a woman when he loves her." I don't suppose that I am the meanest of His creatures, but I am not as good as you, dear. There is... | |
| Hugh Price Hughes - Christian life and character - 1892 - 234 pages
...practised with Zacchaeus, are astonishingly and delightfully successful. Browning has well said — " God be thanked, the meanest of His creatures Boasts two...world with, One to show a woman when he loves her." You must often have been struck, as I have, at the way in which some pure and noble woman has lavished... | |
| Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...Twenty-fifth. Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength He deigns impart. January Twenty-sixth. God be thanked, the meanest of His creatures Boasts two...world with, One to show a woman when he loves her! January Twenty-seventh. But what if I fail in my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain,... | |
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