 | Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 394 頁
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 414 頁
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1890 - 376 頁
...more emphatic by a fully expressed contrast with something transitory. Browning has the following — That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Each member of the contrast is rendered impressive through the comparison to the other, the effect... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1890 - 396 頁
..."Grammarian's Funeral," Browning puts into four terse and epigrammatic lines the same truth :— This low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. A point which. Browning is never weary of illus- / trating is that to all men there come moments of... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 頁
...in the high aim, as I, " Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, " As, God be thanked, I do not ! "8 " That low man seeks a little thing to do, " Sees it...it ; " This high man with a great thing to pursue, " Does ere he knows it. 1 A Soul's Tragedy. a Paracelsus. 3 A Death in the Desert. 4 Old Pictures in... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 頁
...or 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 tiling to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 頁
...Eide together, sii. When the liqnor 's ont, why clink the cannikin ? The Flight of the Dachess, xvi. That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it ; This high man, with a great thing to pnrsne, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, — His hnndred 's soon hit ;... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1891 - 210 頁
...Together. We have the same idea in another form in the concluding lines of A Grammarian's Funeral : — That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : The high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. The tower at Pisa, not falling, but vainly trying... | |
 | Marshall Mather - 1892 - 190 頁
...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...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one His hundreds soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses a unit. That, has the world here —... | |
 | Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 頁
...wooed, not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male lands, Laid to their hearts instead. July Sixth. That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred 's soon hit ; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses a unit, That has the world here —... | |
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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. 
