 Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, "Sweat For foreheads," men say "crowns," and so we are crowned, Ay, gashed by some tormenting circle of steel...  All for the Best: A Story of Quiet Life - Seite 11von All - 1861Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1857 - 772 Seiten
...of a sublime truth vibrates in these lines, as the tone of a Cathedral bell summoning to worship. " Get leave to work In this world, — 'tis the best you get at all : For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, ' Sweat For foreheads ;' men say ' crowns,'... | |
 | 1868
...in mischief. Grown-up children are not different. Well •wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning : — " Get leave to work In this world, 'tis the best you get at all ; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, ' Sweat For foreheads,' men say 'crowns ;... | |
 | 1862
...has made all labour eacred in that paradise which for thee he has regained. For him then — " Gpt leave to work ; In this world, 'tis the best you get at «H ; For God in cursing gives us better gifts Than man ill benediction." In all the sacrifices which... | |
 | 1881 - 670 Seiten
...rather too spiteful ! " Heine's Poems, p. 83, edition 1873, EDWARD H. MARSHALL, MA (G"' S. iii. 188). " Get leave to work In this world,— 'tis the best you get at all." Aurora Leigh (second edition, 1857), bk. iii. p. 95. HESTEK PENGELLÏ. ЯШсеПапеоив. NOTES... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 420 Seiten
...as steep as some larks climb, And, in a certain house in Kensington, Three years I lived and worked. Get leave to work In this world, — 'tis the best you get at all;' For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, ' Sweat For foreheads ; ' men say '• crowns... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 Seiten
...as steep as some larks climb, And, in a certain house in Kensington, Three years I lived and worked. Get leave to work In this world, — 'tis the best you get at all ; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, ' Sweat For foreheads ;' men say ' croWns... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 404 Seiten
...as steep as some larks climb, And, in a certain house in Kensington, Three years I lived and worked. Get leave to work In this world, — 'tis the best you get at all ; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, ' Sweat For foreheads ;' men say ' crowns... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1860 - 464 Seiten
...ill vain that build it" — Ps. cxxvii. 1. " I will direct their work in truth." — ISA. Ixi. 8. ' ' Get leave to work In this world, 'tis the best you get at all, For God in cursing gives us better gifts Than men iu benediction. God says, ' Sweat For foreheads.' Men say, ' Crowns,'... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 418 Seiten
...as steep as some larks climb, And, in a certain house in Kensington, Three years I lived and worked. Get leave to work In this world, — 'tis the best you get at all ; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, ' Sweat For foreheads;' men say 'crowns;'... | |
 | Matilda M. Hays - 1866 - 346 Seiten
...is no panacea so unfailing for all the ills to which flesh is heir —save sickness— as work — "Get leave to work In this world, 'tis the best you get at all ; For God. in cursing. gives us better gifts, Than men in benediction. * * * » « * Get work. get work Be sure 'tis better... | |
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