| Robert Browning - 1835 - 234 pages
...other Needs hope success : I act as though each one Who hears me may aspire : now mark me well : 'T is in the advance of individual minds That the slow crowd should ground their expectation Eventually to follow — as the sea Waits ages in its hed, 'till some one wave Of all the... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 406 pages
...mountain-cloister'd priest Instructing Paracelsus ! yet, 'tis so. Come, I will show you where my merit lies. Tis in the advance of individual minds That the slow crowd should ground their expectation Eventually to follow — as the sea Waits ages in its bed, 'till some one wave Out of the... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1852 - 750 pages
...become many. " 'Tia on the advance of individual mindi Mankind must found their reasonable expectation Eventually to follow ; as the sea Waits ages in its bed, till some one wave Of all the multitudinous mass extends The empire of its fellows ; then the rest, E'en to the meanest,... | |
| English literature - 1857 - 654 pages
...accidents of war or of peace. " Tis on the advance of individual minds Mankind most found its reasonable expectations Eventually to follow ; as the sea "Waits ages in its bed, till some one wave Of all the multitudinous mass extends The empire of its fellows — then the rest, E'en to the meanest,... | |
| Sir John William Kaye - Christianity - 1859 - 576 pages
...him : — " 'Tis on the advance of individual minds That the slow crowd mast ground their expectation Eventually to follow — as the sea Waits ages in its bed, till some one wave Of all the multitudinous mass extends The empire of the whole, some feet, perhaps, Over the strip of... | |
| Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...Egyptian corn. " 'Tis in the advance of individual minds That the alow crowd places its expectation, Eventually to follow; — as the sea Waits ages in its bed; till some one wave Of all the multitudinous mass extends The empire of the whole, some feet, perhaps, Over the strip of... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 394 pages
...mountain-cloister'd priest Instructing Paracelsus ! yet, 'tis so. Come, I will show you where my merit lies. J Tis in the advance of individual minds That the slow crowd should ground their expectation Eventually to follow-—as the sea Waits ages in its bed, 'till some one wave Out of the... | |
| English literature - 1864 - 618 pages
...care not for their presence, muse or sleep, And all at once they leave you and you know them!' ' 'T is in the advance of individual minds That the slow crowd should ground their expectation Eventually to follow ; as the sea Waits ages in its bed, 'till some one wave Out of the... | |
| Samuel Neil - Public meetings - 1868 - 104 pages
...co-operation. " "Tis in the advance of individual minds That the slow crowds must ground their expectation Eventually to follow : as the sea Waits ages in its bed, till some one wave, Of all the multitudinous mass, extends The empire of the whole some feet, perhaps, Over the strip of... | |
| 1868 - 548 pages
...single heroic man. " Paracelsus " already expressed this doctrine in the splendid lines at page 87, " 'Tis in the advance of individual minds that the slow crowd should ground their expectation eventually to follow," etc. ; and here in " Luria " we have it still more broadly put,... | |
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