 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 頁
...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 to one, His hundred's soon hit ; The high man, aiming at a million,... | |
 | 1903 - 848 頁
...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 these noble verses with singular felicity to Lord Acton. Clearly... | |
 | 1856 - 706 頁
...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,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 頁
...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...soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses a unit. That has the world here — should he need the next, Let the world mind him ; This throws himself... | |
 | 1856 - 1492 頁
...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...hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, In these passages Browning evidences his capacity to create the beautiful, making it evident that its... | |
 | John Nichol - 1860 - 258 頁
...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 cycle of events, make success a test of national virtue. Power may... | |
 | Sir George Young - 1862 - 120 頁
...narrowness and inutility. CHAPTER III. " This low man, with 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's good; if he need the next, Let the world mind him! This throws himself on God, and... | |
 | Museum and English journal of education - 1863 - 576 頁
...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 he need the next Let the world mind him ; This throws himself on God, and... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 頁
...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 high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here,... | |
 | 1877 - 706 頁
...we build." As Robert Browning writes, " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it, and does it : This high man with a great thing to pursue, Dies...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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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. 
