 While man knows partly but conceives beside, Creeps ever on from fancies to the fact, And in this striving, this converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use, Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts' : God is, they...  Studies in Literature, 1789-1877 - Pagina 216de Edward Dowden - 1878 - 523 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 268 pagini
...fancies to the fact, And in this striving, this converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use, Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's,...is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Such progress could no more attend his soul Were all it struggles after found at first And guesses... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pagini
...fancies to the fact, And in this striving, this converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use, Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's,...is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Such progress could no more attend his soul "Were all it struggles after found at first And guesses... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pagini
...fancies to the fact, And in this striving, this converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use, Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's,...is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Such progress could no more attend his soul Were all it struggles after found at first And guesses... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 300 pagini
...converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use, T Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, J Not God's, and not the beasts' : God is, they are, ^Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Such progress could no more attend his soul "Were all it struggles after found at first And guesses... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 pagini
...its glory, its peculiarity, that which makes us men — not God and not brutes — lies in this very character of imperfection, giving scope, as it does,...is by a succession of failures, stimulating higher aspirations and endeavours, that we may reach at last " The ultimate angels' law Indulging every instinct... | |
 | 1869 - 384 pagini
...it does, for indefinite growth and progress : — " Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, No^God's and not the beasts' ; God is, they are, Man partly...is by a succession of failures, stimulating higher aspirations and endeavours, that we may reach at last " The ultimate angels' law Indulging every instinct... | |
 | Dublin city, roy. coll. of sci - 1875 - 358 pagini
...its glory, its peculiarity, that which makes us men — not God and not brutes— lies in this very character of imperfection, giving scope, as it does,...is by a succession of failures, stimulating higher aspirations and endeavours, that we may reach at last " The ultimate angels' law Indulging every instinct... | |
 | 1873 - 548 pagini
...the lower creatures, and, of course, wanting in the Deity in whom all perfections are combined. •' Progress, man's distinctive mark alone Not God's and...they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be." This idea of progress the poet twines among nearly all his conceptions of the duties and hopes of life.... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pagini
...increase no more, is dwarfed and dies, since here's its sphere." " Progress is man's distinction, man's alone, not God's and not the beasts.' God is, they are, — man partly is, and wholly hopes to be." " God's gift is that man shall conceive of truth And yearn to gain it, catching at mistake, As midway... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1880 - 392 pagini
...the feet, " And in this striving, this converting air " Into a solid he may grasp and use, " Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, " Not God's,...they are, " Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. " Such progress could no more attend his soul " Were all it struggles after found at first " And guesses... | |
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