...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe l For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. (" Rabbi ben Ezra.") Such are Mr. Browning's vigorous utterances upon the most universal and depressing...

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...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grndge the throe ! For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks...might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. What is he but a brute Whose flesh hath soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play...

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...! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks — Shall life succeed in that it seema to fail : What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me : A brute 1 might hare been, but would...