 | 1891 - 728 pages
...dreadfully hard to understand after all. Let any good reader pronounce these lines from ' Abt Vogler ' — ' All we have willed, or hoped, or dreamed of good shall...; Enough that he heard it once ; we shall hear it by-and-by.' Or this, from ' One Word More,' by way of contrast — ' But the best is when I glide from... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - Devotional literature, English - 1891 - 436 pages
...good with, for evil, so much good more ; On the earth the broken arcs ; in heaven a perfect round. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth...; Enough that He heard it once ; we shall hear it by-and-by. These thoughts interpret the fulness of our lives, our trials and falls and aspirations,... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1892 - 666 pages
...now a word from what seems to me one of the finest things Browning ever wrote, "Abt Vogler " : — " All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall...that he heard it once : we shall hear it by and by." Every dream, every ideal, everything we have tried to think or to be, is promise, is prophecy. And... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 488 pages
...with, for evil, so much good more ; On the earth the broken arcs ; in the heaven, a perfect round. x. All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall...that he heard it once : we shall hear it by and by. XI. And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fullness of the clays ? Have we withered... | |
 | Marshall Mather - English literature - 1892 - 190 pages
...earth's notes rising up to heaven, and cannot die in air and perish with the ceasing sound. Oh no : ' The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth...; Enough that He heard it once ; we shall hear it by-and-by.' So the musician returns to the common chord as he retires to earth : ' Give me the keys.... | |
 | Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach delinquency. July Eighth. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth...; Enough that He heard it once ; we shall hear it by-and-by. July Ninth. As the first glance told me There was no duty patent in the world THOUGHTS FIT... | |
 | Greek letter societies - 1893 - 564 pages
...because I cling with my jnind To the same, same self, same love, same God : ay, what was, shall be. There shall never be one lost good ! What was, shall...what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days ? Have we withered or agonized ? Why else was the pause prolonged but that... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1893 - 208 pages
...in the heaven, a perfect round. X. All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist ; N ot its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor...; Enough that he heard it once : we shall hear it by-and-by. \ And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days ? Have... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1894 - 534 pages
...There shall never be one lost good 1 What was, shall live as before ; -~ The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound ; What was good shall be...• Enough that he heard it once: we shall hear it byand-by. XL And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence" For the fulness of the days? Have... | |
 | Robert Mark Wenley - Pessimism - 1894 - 392 pages
...There shall never be one lost good ! what was, shall live as before ; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound ; What was good, shall be...; Enough that he heard it once : we shall hear it by-and-by." His vision not thus enlightened, the contradictoriness of things remains for Hamlet an... | |
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All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved... 
