 Was the trial sore ? Temptation sharp ? Thank God a second time ! Why comes temptation but for man to meet •' And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph ? Pray " Lead us into no such temptations, Lord...  The Quarterly Review - Page 427edited by - 1907Full view - About this book
 | 1882 - 844 pages
...things work together for good, and that evil is but the grit that polishes the stone, he says : — Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master, and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph ? Pray, " Lead us into no such temptations, Lord," Yea, but, O Thou, whose servants... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1898 - 248 pages
...old man professes an absolute belief. Or should there have been any passing temptation, what then? "Why comes temptation but for man to meet and master, and make crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestalled in triumph?" And so he concludes, " Work, be unhappy, but bear life my son." At the close... | |
 | American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...the fight bflgins within himself A man 's worth something," and substitute for his usual nightcap, " Why comes temptation but for man to meet, And master...beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph ? " he might at first find such a sudden influx of red blood into his veins a little more than his... | |
 | English literature - 1869 - 622 pages
...for God's sake, He who is Pity : was the trial sore ? Temptation sharp ? Thank God a second time ! Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot; And so be pedestalled in triumph ? Pray " Lead us into no such temptations, Lord ! " Yea, but, O Thou whose servants... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1869 - 368 pages
...for God's sake, He who is Pity : was the trial sore ? Temptation sharp ? Thank God a second time ! Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, 1185 And so be pedestalled in triumph ? Pray " Lead us into no such temptations, Lord ! " Yea, but,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...passion for God's sake, He who is Pity : was the trial sore ? Temptation sharp? Thank God a second time! Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph ? Pray " Lead us into no such temptations, Lord I " Yea, but, O Thou whose servants... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1877 - 234 pages
.... . . . Was the trial sore ? Temptation sharp 1 Thank God ! a second time Why comes temptation tut for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph ? " The Ring and tht Book. JOAN'S return is now a three-days-old event. She is no longer treated with... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...strong in his wrestle with it. " Upon men's own account must evil stay." And of temptation ; " It is for man to meet and master, and make crouch beneath his foot, and so he pedestalled in triumph." And of doubt ; it is the forerunner of belief, itself transitory. " You... | |
 | Education - 1926 - 682 pages
...When the fight begins within himself A man's worth something, and substitute for his usual nightcap, Why comes temptation but for man to meet, And master...beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? he might learn to welcome the joy and the strength of the new elixir of life." n Granting the possibility... | |
 | Robert Browning - Poetry - 1881 - 1006 pages
...occasion of victory .... ' . . . was the trial sore ? Temptation sharp ? Thank God a second time ! Why comes temptation, but for man to meet, And master, and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph 7 Pray " Lead us into no such temptations. Lord ! " Yea, but, 0 Thou whose servants... | |
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