 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...  Littell's Living Age - Página 601896Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Epictetus - 1889 - 220 páginas
...noble sonnet on Sorrow as a thoroughly fit poetic statement of Stoic doctrine on this subject : — " Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee ; do tliou With courtesy receive him ; rise and bow ; And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission... | |
 | 1891 - 334 páginas
...do and bear Thy will, Till the morning light shall shine, Shepherd mine ! FROM THB GERMAN. SONNET. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate, Confirming, cleansing,... | |
 | 1891 - 438 páginas
...all he did to me ? Oh, gold is great, but greater far Bubrep Ubomas 2>e IDere. 1814. THE DARK ANGEL. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hospitality ; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul' s marmoreal * calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate, Confirming,... | |
 | Leonard Abercrombie Wheatley - 1891 - 278 páginas
...lessons of the Imitation, and another lesson it inculcates is thus expressed by Aubrey de Vere : — "Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave." CHAPTER II. GERMAN MYSTICS. SCHOLASTICISM attained its best period in the thirteenth century, towards... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 304 páginas
...but seem to lift us out of the petty troubles and sorrows of life. CHAPTER IX THE TROUBLES OF LIFE " Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee ; Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate ; Confirming, cleansing, raising, making free... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 páginas
...might lay his lance in rest, And charge in earnest — were it but a mill. AUSTIN DOBSON XVII. SORROW COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal 1 calmness : Grief should be, Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate ; Confirming, cleansing, raising,... | |
 | Katharine Paine Sutton - 1892 - 256 páginas
...planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. THE DARK ANGEL. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hospitality ; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate, Confirming, cleansing,... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1893 - 640 páginas
...might In every fight, — The world would be the better for it. —NH Cobb. SATURDAY. The Dark Angel. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hospitality; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate, Confirming, cleansing,... | |
 | Christian Brothers - 1893 - 460 páginas
...purplo lawlessness heathendom unconscious haze tyP 6 nocturnal frontier tradition -vicinity AFFLICTION. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...his heavenly feet to lave ; Then lay before him all tbou hast : allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality ; no wave Of tumult... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 páginas
...Well, then, why should we complain of what is but a preparation for future happiness ? We ought to " Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness : Grief shall be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate ; Confirming, cleansing, raising, making free ; Strong... | |
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