 | Alexander Mackennal - 1871 - 328 pages
...disturbs our clod, Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes who 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 ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,... | |
 | Gilbert Haven, Thomas Russell - 1872 - 486 pages
...progressionless calm. He should have cried to these chastisements as to private struggles with temptation, — " Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit, nor stand, but go ! " But, while the stuff was not in him that makes the cool, steadfast, unrelenting martyr, he possessed... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...disturbs our clod ; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I rriust believe. VI. Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...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... | |
 | Owens College - 1874 - 588 pages
...unmixed gain if it simply smooths the path for you, and leaves you content with the same elevation. " Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...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... | |
 | Songs - 1874 - 252 pages
...earth's smoothness rongh, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go t Be our joys three-parts pain 1 Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! For thenco, — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, — Shall life succeed in that it seems... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of his tribes that take, I must believe. ROBERT BROWNING. 205 Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...clod ; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of his tribes that take, I must believe. Then, weleome 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...we hold of God Vho gives, than of his tribes that tike, I must believe. 204 ROBERT BROWNING. Thou, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, hut go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1895 - 588 pages
...Best, p. 49. life do not consist in passionate effort such as that which Browning counsels : — ' Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! ' ' Nor are they to be experienced, as with Tennyson, in the contemplation of a blessed far-off consummation... | |
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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! 
