 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 800 pages
...skill, Doyourbest, whether winning or losingit, If you choose to play — is my principle ! Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
 | 1856 - 430 pages
...skill, Do your best whether winning or losing It If yon choose to play— Is my principle 1 Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be It what It will ! The counter our lovers staked w«s lost As surely as if It were lawful coin : And the sin 1 impute... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play — is my principle ! Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...; Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play — is my principle ! Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin ; And the sin I impute... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter, our lovers staked, was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play — is my principle ! Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin ; And the sin I impute... | |
 | Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1876 - 334 pages
...dreamy and obstinate. " There shall be nothing mean, nothing sordid, nothing worldly in it. ' Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it may.' And my life's set prize is beauty." " You make a bad bargain, Hubert, and some day you will bitterly... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1877 - 400 pages
...skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play— is my principle ! Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will. " Think earnestly upon any subject, investigate it sincerely, and you are sure to love it, Sir A. Helps... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...expression of the artificer's highest ideal. "Trusting his feeble, fullest sense," he would have "man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be it what it will ; for the sin of each frustrate ghost is the unlit lamp and the ungirt lion." "So shall the soul declare... | |
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If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! 
