 | 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... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...not? Worthy of the sepulture to which they bore him so proudly. And this is the moral of the tale :— That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, 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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 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...great thing to pursue, 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ireland - 1856 - 1492 pages
...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 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, In... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sir George Young - Greek literature, Modern - 1862 - 120 pages
...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 unperplexed. Seeking, shall find Him." EOBEBT BROWNING. NOTHING in all the marvels of past history... | |
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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. 
