 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 - Page 216by Edward Dowden - 1878 - 523 lehteFull view - About this book
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1900 - 824 lehte
...Browning continues : 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. In the light of this, Wordsworth's " moving about in worlds not realized" is perfectly intelligible.... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1900 - 826 lehte
...Browning continues : And in this striving, this converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use, P'inds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's,...is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. In the light of this, Wordsworth's " moving about in worlds not realized" is perfectly intelligible.... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1900 - 826 lehte
...Browning continues : 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. In the light of this, Wordsworth's " moving about in worlds not realized" is perfectly intelligible.... | |
 | Cortland Myers - 1900 - 558 lehte
...unconscious grow up through the common — this is my symphony. — WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING. Progress mans distinctive mark alone, Not God's and not the beasts...; they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. — BROWNING. Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the power,... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1900 - 44 lehte
...the Desert," where he " Finds progress man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's ; 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, Than motion... | |
 | Chauncey Bunce Brewster - 1901 - 316 lehte
...Unity of Nature, pp. 153, 154. NOTE 11 (page 94).—Compare these lines from the same poet: " . . . progress man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's and...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... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1902 - 294 lehte
...to. It is the yearning of the spirit, riot , the skill of the hand, which gives it its real value. x Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's,...is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. No English poet has written so fully upon art and music, or has shown more conclusively an exact knowledge... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1902 - 74 lehte
...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. In Reverie, the question is asked: How but from near to far Should knowledge proceed, increase? Ere... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 lehte
...from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest. A Death in the Desert Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's,...they are ; Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. ibid. The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse... | |
 | ROBERT BROWNING - 1902 - 62 lehte
...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. In Reverie, the question is asked: How but from near to far Should knowledge proceed, increase? »<v... | |
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