| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1894 - 1066 pages
...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...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. The low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit ; The high man, aiming at a million,... | |
| Literature - 1903 - 848 pages
...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 does it; That high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Professor Maitland has lately applied... | |
| Ireland - 1856 - 706 pages
...tiling to do, | Misses an nnlt. Sees it ami does It : ; That, hag the world here— should he need This high man, with a great thing to pursue. Dies...knows It. That low man goes on adding one to one, Ills hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, the next, Let the world mind him ! This,... | |
| Christianity - 1856 - 538 pages
...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, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes... | |
| 1856 - 542 pages
...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 - Criticism - 1860 - 258 pages
...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,...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... | |
| John Nichol - Criticism - 1860 - 256 pages
...grades and times, failing only 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 pages
...Justice, awards all 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...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. " That has the world here, should he need the next Let the world mind him ; This throws himself on God, and... | |
| Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 pages
...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 puisne, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred 's soon hit : This... | |
| 1877 - 706 pages
...Future. " Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build." As Robert Browning writes, " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it,...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit : This high man aiming at a million, Misses an unit." FRANCES ANNE BUDGE. * " The... | |
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