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 | Robert Browning - 1900 - 314 pages
...And I, too, at such trouble, Keep 'em close-nipped on the sly ! There 'sa great text in Galatiar.s, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails. Plots If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of Heaven as sure can be. Spin him round and send him flying... | |
 | Earl John Francis Stanley Russell Russell - Agnosticism - 1902 - 260 pages
...xii, 4. Revised Version. 148 Lay Sermons. debased intellect of the monk satirised by Browning : — " There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on...Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails : If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round, and send him flying Off... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 408 pages
...one fruit-sort can you spy? Strange! And I, too, at such trouble Keep them close-nipped on the sly! There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on...Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails. If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 404 pages
...one fruit-sort can you spy ? Strange! And I, too, at such trouble Keep them close-nipped on the sly! There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...Prayer, st, 7 The deep damnation of his taking-off, SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, i, 7 Damnations, — There 'sa great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails...Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails, R, BROWNING, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, st, 7 Dance, — On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 478 pages
...left no evidence. " Actum est" with King.' 'He gave me that book, too,' said Beetle, licking his lips: 'There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip...Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure if another fails.' Then irrelevantly : 'Setebos! Setebos! and Setebos! Thinketh he liveth in the cold of the moon.' 'He's... | |
 | Arnold Smith - English poetry - 1907 - 232 pages
...entertains towards another member of the confraternity sentiments of anything but Christian charity. There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on...Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails : If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1907 - 428 pages
...monastery, inside a pettier breast. The joy of setting a trap to catch saintly Brother Lawrence ! There 'sa great text in Galatians Once you trip on it, entails...Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure if another fails ; If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be Spin him round, and send him flying Off... | |
 | 1908 - 368 pages
...beyond their catechism might land them in some recondite heresy. " There's a great text in Galatians, If you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations — One sure, if another fails." Hence the great object of Saint Cyran was to re-establish instinct in its rights. To this end he must... | |
 | Bliss Perry - American essays - 1908 - 322 pages
...satisfaction, with a positive glee, that Browning's monk in the "Spanish Cloister" cries, — " There 'sa great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails...distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails." Solitude is a prolific breeder of fancies like these. Over the windows of the romancer's lonely study,... | |
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