 | American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...believed himself capable of a single pure impulse of the soul entirely unmixed with bodily sensations he would have stared in amazement. Rabbi Ben Ezra's test,...Thy body at its best, How far can that project thy goal on its lone way?" would have struck this young man as a decidedly "fresh" inquiry. A certain pictorial... | |
 | Robert Browning - English poetry - 1864 - 264 pages
...Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play ? To man, propose this test — Thy body at its best, How far can 'that project thy soul on its lone way ? 9, Yet gifts should prove their use : I own the Past profuse Of power each side, perfection every... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 pages
...Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play ? To man, propose this test — Thy body at its best, How far can that project thy soul on its lone way ? 9. Yet gifts should prove their use : I own the Past profuse Of power each side, perfection every... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play ? To man, propose this test — Thy body at its best, How far can that project thy soul on its lone way? * Yet gifts should prove their us©: I own the Past profuse Of power each side, perfection every turn... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play ? To man, propose this test — Thy body at its best, How far can that project thy soul on its lone way ? ' DC. Yet gifts should prove their use : I own the Past profuse Of power each side, perfection every... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play ? To man, propose this test, — Thy body at its best, How far can that project thy soul on its lone way ? Yet gifts should prove their use : I own the Past profuse Of power each side, |>erfection every turn... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play ? To man, propose this test, — Thy body at its best How far can that project thy soul on its lone way ? Yet gifts should prove their use : I own the Past profuse Of power each side, perfection every turn... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play ? To man, propose this test, — Thy body at its best, How far can that project thy soul on its lone way ? Yet gifts should prove their use : 1 own the Past profuse Of power each side, perfection every turn... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1879 - 550 pages
...though, in ' Rabbi Ben Ezra ' the one side is stated most forcibly and truly — ' To man, propose this test — Thy body at its best, How far can that project thy soul on its lone way? ' yet there follows immediately the other side with equal truth ' Let us not always say " Spite of... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1879 - 562 pages
...though, in ' Rabbi Ben Ezra ' the one side is stated most forcibly and truly — ' To man, propose this test — Thy body at its best, How far can that project thy soul on its lone way ? ' yet there follows immediately the other side with equal truth ' Let us not always say " Spite of... | |
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Eyes, ears took in their dole, Brain treasured up the whole; Should not the heart beat once "How good to live and learn"? 
