 Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know.  The Art of Thinking - Page 64by Thomas Sharper Knowlson - 1921 - 165 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1894 - 534 pages
...hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and 1 • woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the car ; The rest may reason and welcome : 't is we musicians know. xn. Well, it is earth with me ; silence... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1895 - 132 pages
...but that singing might issue thence ? Why rushed the discords in, but that harmony should be prized ? Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear,...rest may reason and welcome : 'tis we musicians know. XII. Well, it is earth with me ; silence resumes her reign : I will be patient and proud, and soberly... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1895 - 1070 pages
...that singing might issue thence ? Why rushed the discords in, but that harmony should be prized '.' Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear,...whispers in the ear ; The rest may reason and welcome : 't is we tungi^li^Tm know. Well, it is earth with me ; silence resumes her reign: I will be patient... | |
 | William Chatterton Coupland - 1895 - 746 pages
...but that singing might issue thence : Why rushed the discords in, but that harmony should be prized? Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear,...But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; LIII. POTTER AND CLAY. Not on the vulgar mass Called "work," must sentence pass, Things done, that... | |
 | Florence Montgomery - 1895 - 480 pages
...the source and meaning of deeper things, if she could express them in one way so perfectly. For — " Each sufferer says his say, His scheme of the weal...rest may reason and welcome; 'Tis we musicians know." of dinner. But he found there was not much to be got out of her, and did not feel rewarded for his... | |
 | William Smythe Babcock Mathews - 1895 - 752 pages
...that harmony should be prized ? Sorrow is hard to bear and doubt is slow to clear, 3 Each sufferer has his say, his scheme of the weal and Woe; But God has...rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know. Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce.... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1895 - 354 pages
...pain. " Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of weal and woe ; But God has a few of us whom He whispers...may reason and welcome ; 'tis we musicians- know." The calm born of contemplating nature is very great ; and yet remorse in the heart would be sufficient... | |
 | 1895 - 206 pages
...3, 1882. April Fourth. It is essential that you train your mind more than your fingers. Moscheles. God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear ;...may reason, and welcome — 'tis we musicians know. Robert Browning. April Fifth. Contact with the powers of others calls forth new ones in ourselves.... | |
 | 1895 - 52 pages
...EDWIN SIDNEY OVIATT. PHILIP CURRAN PECK. CHAUNCEY WETMORE WELLS. GOUNOD'S "SAINTE CECILIA" MASS. " God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear, The...may reason and welcome — 'tis we musicians know." Browning's Abt Vogltr. WHEN Gounod died the critics were ready to assign him his position among musicians.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1895 - 136 pages
...lead to the kingdom of life and art. They seem to anticipate Browning's Abt Vogler, who sang : — " Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear;...sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and the woe; But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason, and welcome: 'tis... | |
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