 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 pages
...welcomes them, being well aware that only through their agency can the lesson of life be truly learned. " 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,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 488 pages
...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 ; date, never grudge the throe ! VII. For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, —... | |
 | Adelaide S. Seaverns - 1893 - 380 pages
...more rich and good and happy. Only be sure that you are always ready ! — Phillips Brooks. July 14. 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... | |
 | Robert Alexander Watson - 1893 - 446 pages
...Providence, never go back on that of which the Spirit of the Almighty made us capable in the hour of trial. " Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go 1 Be our joys three parts pain 1 Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ;... | |
 | William Barclay - 1976 - 224 pages
...everything can be utilised to make him a wiser and a better man. As Robert Browning wrote in Rabbi ben Ezra: "Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joy three-parts pain! Strive and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1981 - 308 pages
...testament, proclaimed an ecstatic joy of life in the living, the optimist's glory in the consuming struggle: Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...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... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pages
...For out of youth's struggle comes strength, and out of youth's pain come wisdom and understanding. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...life indeed. Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast: (1. 19—21) 73 e me. (1. 22—28) No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace (Elegies) 42 71 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 pages
...It yearned 'Nor Jove, nor Mars; ' Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!' VJ Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but gol Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; I earn, nor account the pang;... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 pages
...reciting a stanza from Robert Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra: Then welcome each rebuff That turns earths 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... | |
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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! 
