 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 pagine
...prize might hold To match those manifold Possessions of the brute, — gain most, as we did best ! Let us not always say, "Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon Let us cry, " All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul !" Therefore... | |
 | William Wallace - 1890 - 240 pagine
...weakness and ignorance of the speaker! —merely, as it were, perceiving, without feeling them." ' " Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term,' says Ben Ezra in the poet. And Schopenhauer, comparing past with present, notes certain defects in... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - 1891 - 420 pagine
...will attract not only to the reading but to the study of it. Here are the lessons of advancing years : Let us not always say, "Spite of this flesh to-day,...soul helps flesh more now, than flesh helps soul!" ***** Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made... | |
 | 1891 - 590 pagine
...passionate ; no virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic," — or those other words of Rabbi Ben Ezra, Let us not always say Spite of this flesh to-day "...soul helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul." How fresh this seems, — how full of the sweet sharp breath of the new day ! but here, too, Pope after... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - 1891 - 436 pagine
...Rabbi Ben Ezra, which is, in epitome, a philosophy of life. Here are the lessons of advancing years : Let us not always say "Spite of this flesh to-day,...soul helps flesh more now, than flesh helps soul." Grow old along with met The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1891 - 278 pagine
...it justify the word ; and Browning's, too, which you have heard before : — " Then let us no more say, Spite of this flesh to-day, I strove, made head,...soul helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul.' " How, then ? Does it not appear that for us, as for no men before us, the great commandment has a... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1891 - 348 pagine
...it justify the word ; and Browning's, too, which you have heard before : — " Then let us no more say, Spite of this flesh to-day, I strove, made head,...soul helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul.' " How, then ? Does it not appear that for us, as for no men before us, the great commandment has a... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1891 - 524 pagine
...safe that is not enthusiastic," — or those other words of Rabbi Ben Ezra, Let us not always say 4 Spite of this flesh, to-day " I strove, made head,...us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps ñesh more now than flesh helps soul." How fresh this seems, — how full of the sweet sharp breath... | |
 | James Harvey Tuttle - 1891 - 420 pagine
...earth at least was the ladder without which we could not have climbed to heaven ? Browning says, — " As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, ' All good...soul helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul.' " And was not this thought borrowed from Paul ? " For all things are yours, — or the world, or life,... | |
 | 1892 - 636 pagine
...physical and spiritual, will be full of the spirit of God. So sings one of Browning's sages : — " Let us not always say, ' Spite of this flesh, to-day...head, gained ground, upon the whole ! ' As the bird sings and wings, Let us cry, 'All good things Are ours ; nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh... | |
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Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul! 
