...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe l For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. (" Rabbi ben Ezra.") Such are Mr. Browning's vigorous utterances upon the most universal...

...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! 7. For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms...

...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe! 7. For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it...me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms...

...Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe ! 7. For thence — a paradox Which comforts •while it...me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. & What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms...

...hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! 7. For thence,—a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,— Shall life...me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 8. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms...

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...A spark disturbs our clod ; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I rriust believe. VI. Then, welcome each rebuff That turns...me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. 1 VIII. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest...

...vigour 1 The student of Browning will recall countless passages in which he illuminates this truth. For thence- -a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. INTRODUC- of will of which under ordinary circumstances he is wholly unconscious. The...

...hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! For thenco, — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, — Shall...succeed in that it seems to fail ; What I aspired to bo And was not, comforts me : A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. Not once...