 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 - الصفحة 601896عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Epictetus - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...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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