 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 pagina’s
...welcomes them, being well aware that only through their agency can the lesson of life be truly learned. " 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,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 488 pagina’s
...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 ; date, never grudge the throe ! VII. For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, —... | |
 | Adelaide S. Seaverns - 1893 - 380 pagina’s
...more rich and good and happy. Only be sure that you are always ready ! — Phillips Brooks. July 14. 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... | |
 | George Angier Gordon - 1893 - 338 pagina’s
...appeal and the moral response, the divine stimulus and the human reaction, are thus presented: — " Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go I Be our joy three parts pain! Strive and hold cheap the strain; Learn nor account the pang; dare never... | |
 | William Barclay - 1976 - 224 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1981 - 308 pagina’s
...testament, proclaimed an ecstatic joy of life in the living, the optimist's glory in the consuming struggle: Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...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... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pagina’s
...For out of youth's struggle comes strength, and out of youth's pain come wisdom and understanding. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...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 - 718 pagina’s
...It yearned 'Nor Jove, nor Mars; ' Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!' VJ Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but gol Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; I earn, nor account the pang;... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 pagina’s
...reciting a stanza from Robert Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra: Then welcome each rebuff That turns earths 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... | |
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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! 
