Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! Dramatis Personae - Страница 79написао/ла Robert Browning - 1864 - 250 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
| Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - 1890 - 552 страница
...spark disturbs our clod, Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids not sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three-parts pain , etc. This has struck a high courageous note... | |
| 1890 - 978 страница
...natural that he should preach that this life should be one long act of strenuous, unwearied endeavor. Strive and hold cheap the strain, Learn, nor account the pang; dare, nor judge the throe. 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do. And again : —... | |
| Brooke Foss Westcott - 1891 - 420 страница
...I could never bo, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe! For thence— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:... | |
| Brother Azarias - 1891 - 160 страница
...the goal of perfection. And so the poet exhorts us to welcome the pain, to persist in the strife: " Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the mroe."* He is an optimist. He finds a place for every sin, a solace for every misery. Gazing on the... | |
| Margaret Deland - 1894 - 448 страница
...the vice of quotation, he began to say, his face radiant with the happiness of inexperience, — " ' Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain.' " Sidney looked at him with a sparkle of laughter... | |
| Church congress - 1891 - 438 страница
...commence to assert themselves. The path of true Church progress on earth always must be rough : — " Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! " No strange thing is happening to us in Wales. It is an instance of a law that pervades all Church... | |
| James Russell Miller - 1891 - 296 страница
...and ruin, will yet shine out, the beginning of glory for them. CHAPTER VI. THE BLESSING OP A BURDEN. "Then welcome each rebuff, That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand nor go. Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang;... | |
| George Gillanders Findlay - 1891 - 212 страница
...perfect in thankfulness, grateful for the bitter as well as for the sweet in their experiences, — for "each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go." Such cheerfulness of soul needs strong faith, and is won through hard trial. Rom. v. 3 — 5 supplies... | |
| James Russell Miller - 1891 - 294 страница
...the beginning of glory for them. CHAPTER VI. THE BLESSING OP A BURDEN. " Then welcome each retmrr, That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand nor go. Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang;... | |
| 1891 - 728 страница
...different thing from the magnificent dauntlessness which flings out Rabbi Ben Ezra's grand challenge — ' Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids not sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joy three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,... | |
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