...! ' 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...

...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...

...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...nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe ! " George Eliot's Romola misses all the happiness of her life ; Dorothea errs, and fails of the good...

...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...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...

...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 grudge...

...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 grudge...

...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...

...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! For thence,—a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:...

...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 !' * 1 [The following passage from the Epilogue to ' Romola,' which the author intended to quote at...

...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...