 But delay was best, For their end was a crime." — Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a .test, As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view!  Essays on German Literature - Page 137by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - 1892 - 359 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1911 - 592 pages
...uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! . . , ..." But delay was best, " For tkeir end was a crime." Oh a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test.' Other poets announced their ' principle ' less explicitly, but in the typically modern ballads of John... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...life being manifest, He had cut his way thro' the world to this. I hear your reproach — " But delay was best, For their end was a crime ! " — Oh, a...will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test, As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's... | |
 | 1856 - 430 pages
...and the knight's statue in the square looking toward th« window. I hear your reproach—" But delay was best For their end was a crime ! ''—Oh, a crime...will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test, As tt virtue golden through and through. Sufficient to vindicate Itself And prove Its worth at a moment's... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 800 pages
...missed its aim, and thus delivers his moral of their story : — I hear your reproach — 'But delay waa best, For their end was a crime!' — Oh, a crime will do Ai well. I reply, to serve for ж teat, 110 1856.] Ill As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...life being manifest, He had burned his way through the world to this. I hear you reproach, " But delay was best, For their end was a crime. " — Oh, a crime...will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test, As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's... | |
 | mrs. L E Edwards - 1865 - 304 pages
...although a different education might have developed a different description of evil out of him ; but — A crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue, golden through and through. There were as good hearts in that poor troupe of actors as in... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...life being manifest, He had cut his way through the world to thi* I hear your reproach — " But delay was best, For their end was a crime !" — Oh, a crime will dc As a virtue golden through and through. Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 650 pages
...repulsiveness of the theme, the poet might say, in the words of " The Statue and the Bust," — " O, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test, As a virtue golden through and through." 5. — Annals of the American Pulpit ; or, Commemorative Notices... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 650 pages
...repulsiveness of the theme, the poet might say, in the words of " The Statue and the Bust," — " O, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test, As a virtue golden through and through." 5. — Annals of the American Pitlpit ; or, Commemorative Notices... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...life being manifest, He had burned his way thro' the world to this. I hear you reproach, " But delay was best, " For their end was a crime." — Oh, a...will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test, As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's... | |
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