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 - Page 91by Robert Browning - 1864Full view - About this book
| 1882 - 844 pages
...yet rising again, faint yet pursuing, hindered yet overcoming, he ever struggles forward, saying: — Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe l For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks — Shall life succeed in that it seems to... | |
| American essays - 1890 - 880 pages
...say, his face radiant with the happiness of inexperience, — " ' Then welcome each rebuff That tnrns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor...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... | |
| American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...physical being — fragments from its battle call, — the bugle call to my retreating courage : — " Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand bnt go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 pages
...feasting ended, then As sure an end to men ; Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the mawcraimned beast ? 5. Rejoice we are allied To That which doth...Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the V throe ! 7. For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks — Shall life succeed in that... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 266 pages
...As sure an end to men; Irks care the crop-full bird ? Frets doubt the mawcrammed beast ? o. Eejoice we are allied To That which doth provide And not partake,...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... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 268 pages
...doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive! A spark disturbs our clod; Nearer we hold of God 6. 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... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 270 pages
...hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe. 6. Then, welcome each rebuff A 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... | |
| 1865 - 520 pages
...strength in quietness and confidence, thus exhorts to courage and endurance : Be our joys three-parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,...nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe. And Abt Vogler,* tvith his much-loved music always in his thoughts, giving strange turns to his phrases,... | |
| Alexander Mackennal - Sermons, English - 1871 - 328 pages
...disturbs our clod, Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes who 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 ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,... | |
| Gilbert Haven, Thomas Russell - Merchant mariners - 1872 - 486 pages
...progressionless calm. He should have cried to these chastisements as to private struggles with temptation, — " Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit, nor stand, but go ! " But, while the stuff was not in him that makes the cool, steadfast, unrelenting martyr, he possessed... | |
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