...even hate is but a mask of love's, To see a good in evil, and a hope In ill-success, to sympathize, be proud Of their half-reasons, faint aspirings, dim...fallacies, Their prejudice and fears, and cares and doubts, All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all though weak, Like plants in...

...even hate is but a mask of love's, To see a good in evil, and a hope In ill-success ; to sympathize, be proud Of their half-reasons, faint aspirings, dim...despite Their error, all tend upwardly though weak, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do their best to clirnb and get to him. All this I...

...reverently upon all efforts after truth, and even when men's efforts fail, we ought still " to sympathize, be proud Of their half-reasons, faint aspirings, dim...fallacies, Their prejudice and fears and cares and doubts ; All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all, though weak, Like plants...

...— Sir William Hamilton's Lectures on Metaphysics, vol. L p. 374. THE PRINCIPLE OF DEMOCRACY. 311 Struggles for truth, their poorest fallacies, Their prejudice and fears -and cares and doubts ; All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all, though weak, Like plants...

...even hate is but a mask of love's, To see a good in evil, and a hope In ill-success ; to sympathize, be proud Of their half-reasons, faint aspirings, dim...fallacies, Their prejudice and fears and cares and doubts." I may quote two out of many pertinent passages in Sordello « — " Where the salt marshes stagnate,...

...aspirings, dim Struggles for truth, their poorest fallacies, — • Which aE touch upon nobleness : Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But dream of him and guess where he may be." ilind ling ajf Bohemia. " Lead on ! lead on ! Mine eyes are dim ; I cannot see the lances gleam. But...

...a mask of love's, To see a good in evil, and a hope In ill-success ; to sympathize, be proud Of the half-reasons, faint aspirings, dim Struggles for truth,...fallacies, Their prejudice and fears and cares and doubts ; All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all, though weak, Like plants...

...at their best, but on their weaker and ignobler side, Browning finds that their " . . half reasons, faint aspirings, dim Struggles for truth, their poorest...Their prejudice, and fears, and cares and doubts, all touch Tipon nobleness, despite Their error, all tend upwardly though weak." This sympathetic and...

...even hate is but a mask of love's, To see a good in .evil, and a hope In ill-success; to sympathize, be proud Of their half-reasons, faint aspirings, dim...fallacies, Their prejudice and fears and cares and doubts ; All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all though weak, Like plants in...

...even hate is but a mask of love's, To see a good in evil, and a hope In ill-success, to sympathize, be proud Of their half-reasons, faint aspirings, dim...fallacies, Their prejudice and fears, and cares and doubts, All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all though weak, Like plants in...