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" ... we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. "
Biographical History of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren ... - Page x
1899 - 1075 pages
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Kavanagh: A Tale

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1849 - 208 pages
...degree he applied it to himself, it may perhaps be pardoned in a dreamy, poetic man like him ; for we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,...while others judge us by what we have already done. And moreover his wife considered him equal to great things. To the people in the village, he was the...
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Kavanagh: A Tale

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1849 - 168 pages
...degree he applied it to himself, it may, perhaps, be pardoned in a dreamy, poetic man like him; for we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,...while others judge us by what we have already done. And moreover his wife considered him equal to great things. To the people in the village, he was the...
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Hyperion, and Kavanagh

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1851 - 376 pages
...degree he applied it to himself, it may perhaps be pardoned in a dreamy, poetic man like him ; for we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,...while others judge us by what we have already done. And moreover his wife considered him equal to great things. To the people in the village, he was the...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 58

American essays - 1886 - 910 pages
...conspicuously and significantly clasps the receptacle of my favorite pen. It is from Kavanagh : — " We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,...while others judge us by what we have already done." Then there is the class which we may call anti-illusioners. Such is this couplet from Gautier : —...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 30

Universalism - 1861 - 692 pages
...commencement," said Amelia, and taking the book, she continued, — " I like this passage better. — ' We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,...while others judge us by what we "have already done.' " " That is very true," said George, " but I like Margaret's paragraph ; it is somewhat mystical, but...
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Hyperion, a romance. Kavanagh, a tale

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1861 - 498 pages
...degree he applied it to himself, it may perhaps be pardoned in a dreamy, poetic man like him ; for we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,...while others judge us by what we have already done. And moreover his wife considered him equal to great things. To the people in the village, he was the...
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Lessons in Elocution ...

A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...degree he applied it to himself; it may perhaps be pardoned in a dreamy, poetic man like' him ; for we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,...while others judge us by what we have already done. And, moreover, his wife considered him equal to great things. To the people in the village, he was...
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 10

Education - 1867 - 356 pages
...it may perhaps be pardoned in a dreamy, poetic man like him ; for we judge ourselve* by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. And, moreover, his wife considered him •equal to great things. To the people of the village, he was...
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The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 866 pages
...degree he applied it to himself, it may perhaps be pardoned in a dreamy, poetic man like him , for we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,...while others judge us by what we have already done. And, moreover, his wife considered him equal to great things. To the people in the village he was the...
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The Graded-school First-fifth Reader, Book 5

Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - Readers - 1875 - 348 pages
...degree he applied it to himself, it may, perhaps, be pardoned in a dreamy, poetic man like him; for we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,...while others judge us by what we have already done. And, moreover, his wife considered him equal to great things. 3. To the people in the village, he was...
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