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... The trial-test Appointed to all flesh at some one stage Of soul’s achievement—when the strong man doubts His strength, the good man whether goodness be, The artist in the dark seeks, fails to find Vocation, and the saint forswears his shrine.
... The trial-test Appointed to all flesh at some one stage Of soul’s achievement—when the strong man doubts His strength, the good man whether goodness be, The artist in the dark seeks, fails to find Vocation, and the saint forswears his shrine.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Robert Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 284 · printed citation: R. Browning (The Inn Album). · compiler notes excluded
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