 | Literature - 1903 - 848 pages
...through." If you choose to play a game, yon should fight for the prize to the uttermost. The sin he imputes to each frustrate ghost: Is— the unlit lamp, and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was sin, I say; You of the virtue (we issue join) How strive you? DC te fabula! That raises the question... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...same 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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 800 pages
...the same 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
...the same 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... | |
 | 1856 - 506 pages
...to serve for a test as a virtue. Do your best, whether winning or losing, if you choose to play : " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be what it will." Mr. Browning has such a perilous facility of putting himself into the place of the most... | |
 | American essays - 1884 - 882 pages
...which otherwise they would never be allowed to enter. From philosophers who believe that a man must "contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will," these evil-doers deserve praise for their perseverance and energy. But beyond this nothing can be said... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...same 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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...same 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 - 1874 - 372 pages
...same 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1875 - 472 pages
...though " a crime," they had not so failed of 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... | |
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Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! 
