 | Sir Henry Jones - 1894 - 30 pągines
...in some way or other, the whole creation takes part, it is still worth attaining at the price. They "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... | |
 | Frederic Allen Hinckley - 1894 - 89 pągines
...: — " Rejoice we are allied To that which doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive I A spark disturbs our clod; Nearer we hold of God Who...gives than of his tribes that take, I must believe." A spark disturbs our clod, — that is what is the matter with us, and that is the glory of us. The... | |
 | William Barclay - 1976 - 202 pągines
...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...Each 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1132 pągines
...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 - 698 pągines
...beast? v Rejoice we are allied To That which doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive I A spark disturbs our clod; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must Not once beat 'Praise be Thine! 'I see the whole design, 'I, who saw power, see now love perfect too:... | |
 | Henry Jones - 2001 - 368 pągines
...passive or receptive, but outgoing and effective. " Rejoice we are allied To that which doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive ' A spark...God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe."2 This near affinity between the divine and human is just what Browning seems to repudiate... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - 2006 - 598 pągines
...(Browning) Grow old along with me The best is yet to be The last of life, for which The first was made. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids Not stand nor sit but go. Be one for three parts pain. Strive, and hold fast the pain.230 228 From... | |
 | Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 218 pągines
...crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast? Rejoice we are allied To That which doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive! A spark disturbs our clod; Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe. Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green, David Owen Brink - 2003 - 477 pągines
...generally that which Mr. Browning puts into the mouth of his Rabbi Ben Ezra ?— Then, welcome each rebufl That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go l Be our joys three-parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 460 pągines
...Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails." Then welcome each rebuff, That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting, that bids not sit nor stand but go. BROWNING. CHAPTER XXVIII DECISION Resolve, and thou art free. — LONGFELLOW.... | |
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Rejoice we are allied To That which doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive! A spark disturbs our clod ; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of his tribes that take, I must believe. 
