 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 pagini
...failure overleaps the bounds of low success." We may recall, too, the words of a greater poet — " The 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. The low man goes on adding one... | |
 | 1903 - 848 pagini
...student's "soul, hydroptic with a sacred thirst" —it is inimitable. "That low man," says Browning, That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Professor Maitland has lately applied these noble verses with singular felicity to Lord Acton. Clearly... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pagini
...not? Worthy of the sepulture to which they bore him so proudly. And this is the moral of the tale :— 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. That low man goes on adding one... | |
 | 1856 - 1492 pagini
...next, Let the world mind him ! This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him. This high man, with a 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, In... | |
 | 1856 - 538 pagini
...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 thing to pursue, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pagini
...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 thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one... | |
 | 1856 - 542 pagini
...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 docs it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding... | |
 | John Nichol - 1860 - 258 pagini
...passionate heart ; a forlorn hope of all grades and times, failing only because it aimed too high ? '* 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." Neither can we, till after a long... | |
 | John Nichol - 1860 - 256 pagini
...because it aimed too high? " That low man seeks a little thing to do— r Sees it, and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Neither can we, till after a long cycle of events, make success a test of national virtue. Power may... | |
 | Museum and English journal of education - 1863 - 576 pagini
...things well at last. It is in this strain that he has written the close of the Grammarian's funeral : " 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. " That has the world here, should... | |
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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. 
