 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...  Dramatis personæ [poems]. Author's ed - Pàgina 91per Robert Browning - 1864Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Susan Coolidge - 1890 - 382 pàgines
...power is often simple patience. HORACE BUSHNELL. MADE a little lower than the angels. — HEB. ii. 9. THEN welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand nor go. Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang;... | |
 | Margaret Deland - 1890 - 448 pàgines
...the vice of quotation, he began to say, his face radiant with the happiness of inexperience, — " ' Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, bat go I Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain.' " Sidney looked at him... | |
 | Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - 1890 - 552 pàgines
...spark 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 rough, Each sting that bids not sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three-parts pain , etc. This has struck a high courageous note... | |
 | 1890 - 978 pàgines
...natural that he should preach that this life should be one long act of strenuous, unwearied endeavor. Strive and hold cheap the strain, Learn, nor account the pang; dare, nor judge the throe. 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do. And again : —... | |
 | Margaret Deland - 1894 - 448 pàgines
...the vice of quotation, he began to say, his face radiant with the happiness of inexperience, — " ' Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain.' " Sidney looked at him with a sparkle of laughter in her eyes. " Now, Alan, what do you know about... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - 1891 - 420 pàgines
...I could never bo, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 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... | |
 | Brother Azarias - 1891 - 160 pàgines
...the goal of perfection. And so the poet exhorts us to welcome the pain, to persist in the strife: " 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... | |
 | Church congress - 1891 - 438 pàgines
...commence to assert themselves. The path of true Church progress on earth always must be rough : — " Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! " No strange thing is happening to us in Wales. It is an instance of a law that pervades all Church... | |
 | George Gillanders Findlay - 1891 - 212 pàgines
...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... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1891 - 296 pàgines
...and ruin, will yet shine out, the beginning of glory for them. CHAPTER VI. THE BLESSING OP A BURDEN. "Then welcome each rebuff, That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand nor go. Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang;... | |
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