 | Alexander Smellie - 1899 - 416 pages
...which is mine when I am in it, the King of it who supplies all my need out of His riches in glory. " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face " — nay, the Ifs must go. I have magnified trifling obstructions. I have talked of duty as insipid.... | |
 | Martha Capps Oliver - 1900 - 458 pages
...anywhere), Write one old epitaph in grace-lit words: " Such things look fairer that he sojourned here." If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...food, and summer rain, Knocked on my sullen heart in vain, Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake. (UoBerf fioui's gtf etxnfion... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - 1900 - 312 pages
...good cheer under most trying experiences, sings some very pretty lines illustrating our thought : — "If I have faltered more or less In my great task...I have moved among my race, And shown no glorious morning-face; If beams from happy, human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food,... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1901 - 62 pages
...Surgeon; one cannot help thinking the whole current of Stevenson's aspiration flowed through that: "If I have faltered more or less In my great task...food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1901 - 314 pages
...beauty. But only the love of Christ in us will prepare us for such serving. [ 207 ] Cljc ^abit of [ 209 ] If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...happy human eyes Have moved me not ; if morning skies, Hooks, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1901 - 72 pages
...Surgeon; one cannot help thinking the whole current of Stevenson's aspiration flowed through that: "If I have faltered more or less In my great task...face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me hot; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain:— Lord,... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - 1902 - 298 pages
...was in detail I do not propose here to discuss, but if you 1 See the poem The Celestial Surgeon. " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...food and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain, Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate... | |
 | Elizabeth Waterhouse - 1902 - 526 pages
...pleasures, and chooses to sit down upon his little handful of thorns. JEREMY TAYLOR THE CELESTIAL SURGEON TF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness...skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked at my sullen heart in vain : — 'Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1902 - 282 pages
...the following lines Stevenson clearly indicates the task he had set for himself in this direction : If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not ; df morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain, Knocked on my sullen heart in vain — Lord,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 578 pages
...for it, so that at the end he may say that he has not sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. « If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race 0} And shown no glorious morning face;-, If beams from- happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning... | |
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IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen... 
