 | 1864 - 998 Seiten
...a very different strain, a sermon confew and light, but distinct and densed in a sonnet: — Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his\heavenly feet to lave, — Then lay before him all thou hast ; allow No cloud of passion to ursurp... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...— If but a moment on my cheek it stays I know that gentle beam from all the rest! AFFLICTION. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...hospitality; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate; Continuing, cleansing,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 600 Seiten
...very characteristic of the refinement, the grave wisdom, the stateliness of his mind. SORROW. ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...hospitality ; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness ; grief should be Like joy, majet>tic, equable, sedate ; Confirming,... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere (calling himself earl of Oxford.) - 1842 - 334 Seiten
...the threshold ; dares not tread The space within devote to God and to the dead. LXI. Sorroto. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate : Confirming, cleansing,... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere - 1842 - 334 Seiten
...the threshold ; dares not tread The space within devote to God and to the dead. LXI. j&orrofo. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate : Confirming, cleansing,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 632 Seiten
...with one entitled ' Sorrow,' breathing a very full and noble strain of moral exhortation : — ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...hospitality ; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be, Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate ; Confirming, cleansing,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 714 Seiten
...with one entitled ' Sorrow,' breathing a very full and noble strain of moral exhortation : — ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow ; And And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave. Then lay before... | |
 | 1845 - 328 Seiten
...line of descendants by his first born son, William. Ipswich, Mast. SORROW. BY AOBREV DE VERB. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do then With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission... | |
 | Hannah J. Woodman - 1846 - 224 Seiten
...And its bounding hopes control ; Pray that no unhallowed passion Soil the ermine of thy soul. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmorial calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate ; Confirming, cleansing,... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 Seiten
...with one entitled ' Sorrow,' breathing a very full and noble strain of moral exhortation : — ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...hospitality ; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be, Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate ; Confirming, cleansing,... | |
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Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee ; do thou With courtesy receive him ; rise and bow ; And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave ; Then lay before him all thou... 
