| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...of Ood Who gives, than of his tribes that take, I must believe. 204 ROBERT BROWNING. Then, weleome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each...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... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...! ' Not much enjoyment in that, for any human soul. My favourite verse in Browning comes-iu here : 'Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids, nor sit nor stand, but go ! Jie ¡nirjuyi tfirrr jMirts ¡lain.' Strive, and hold cheap the strain ! Learn, nor account the pang... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 316 pages
...confounded by the dread machinery of sin and sorrow, but can acquiesce in it all, and— " . . . . Welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...Each sting that bids nor sit, nor stand, but go." Not the least important part of this probation here is provided for in the dual nature of man or in... | |
| 1882 - 612 pages
...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 ! " " For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks — Shall life succeed in that it seems... | |
| 1883 - 378 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...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... | |
| English poets - 1883 - 364 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...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:... | |
| Thomas Hill Green - 1883 - 476 pages
...been promoted been generally that which Mr. Browning puts into the mouth of his Rabbi Ben Ezra ? — •Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe !' ' 1 [The following passage from the Epilogue to ' Romola,' which the author intended to quote at... | |
| M. L. Henry - 1883 - 36 pages
...Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee, and turn thee forth sufficiently impressed. . . . 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 ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge... | |
| Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...sorrow can be blest. MRS. HENRY FAUSSETT (ALESSIE BOND). The Cairns of lona. (G. Herbert, Dublin.) 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... | |
| George Gillanders Findlay - 1891 - 212 pages
...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... | |
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