 | Boston Browning Society - 1897 - 518 pages
...cannot express itself. For instance, God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her ! Or this, That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never... | |
 | 1897 - 608 pages
...novels. * * * in a conspicuously feigned hand. Prince Charles also, he says himself, had two hands— One to face the world with, • One to show a woman when he loves her. Glengarry's own manuscripts were drafts of his letters, preserved in his letter-book, and most of them... | |
 | 1905 - 1248 pages
...the greatest happiness, for — "God be thanked! the meanest of His creatures boasts two-soul sides; one to face the world with; one to show a woman when he loves her." Successful Doings on the Canadian Pacific By THE SECRETARY OF DISTRICT 34 HAT which strikes us forcibly... | |
 | Jerome Kilty - 1970 - 66 pages
...approve thee. I love thee so, dear, That I only can love thee. And Robert Browning replies . . . God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to face a woman when she loves him. Where I blush and bless myself with silence. ELIZABETH. (Entering... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1992 - 748 pages
...that love is only a pale shadow of what it might be. People quote with approval Browning's remark: God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two...world with, One to show a woman when he loves her. I am not a psycho-analyst, but I think that if I were I could find something to say about Browning's... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 pages
...other, Not the moon's same side, born late in Florence, Dying now impoverished here in London. God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two...world with, One to show a woman when he loves her! xvm This I say of me, but think of you, Love ! This to you — yourself my moon of poets ! Ah, but... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1996 - 196 pages
...cannot, however, resist the conviction that there is something stuffy about love as he conceived it. God be thanked, the meanest of His creatures, Boasts two...world with, One to show a woman when he loves her! This assumes that combativeness is the only possible attitude towards the world at large. Why? Because... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 1996 - 598 pages
...ratoner • a rakere and bus knaue, Godefray the garlek-mongere • and Griffyn the Walish. (b) God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two...world with, One to show a woman when he loves her. (c) If, later, you run aground Among the headlands of Thrace Where with torches all night long A naked... | |
 | Dion Fortune - 2003 - 260 pages
...could ever see. And I remembered the words of Browning 'God be thanked, the meanest of His mortals, Has two soul-sides, one to face the world with; One to show a woman when he loves her.' Now this was an odd experience; but it left me very happy and able to face my illness with equanimity,... | |
 | Hans Bak - 2004 - 372 pages
...of his journal notes, for Christmas I948, Cummings quoted Browning's lines from "One Word More": God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two...the world with. One to show a woman when he loves her.13 This alteration between a public face and a private face was not only true for Estlin but also... | |
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God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her! 
