 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...  Catholic Educational Review - Seite 1971918Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1864 - 998 Seiten
...touches are 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...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... | |
 | 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
...sonnets with one entitled ' Sorrow,' breathing a very full and noble strain of moral exhortation : — ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...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... | |
 | 1904 - 926 Seiten
...his admirers, but we quote it because those admirers are not nearly so many as they ought to be:— Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Confirming, cleansing, raising, making Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of moral tumult to obliterate... | |
 | 1845 - 328 Seiten
...long 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... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1850 - 416 Seiten
...chaff will only cleanse the gold. Kentrer unto p?im (umble tfmnks for &is bisitation. AUBREY DE VERB. 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,... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1854 - 180 Seiten
...the evident though speechless desire for the glory of God, may all bring forth fruit unto everlasting life. " Count each affliction, whether light or grave,...sent down to thee. Do thou "With courtesy receive him Grief should be. Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate — Confirming, cleansing, raising, making free,... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1854 - 270 Seiten
...evident though speechless desire for the glory of G-od, may all bring forth fruit unto everlasting life. " Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Bo thou With courtesy receive him Grief should be, Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate — Confirming,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 Seiten
...the press, we have received the news of Mr. Lockhart's death at Abbotsford, in December, 1854. WBR "Count each affliction, whether light or grave God's...Permission first his heavenly feet to lave. Then lay hefore him all thou hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality ; no... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1857 - 436 Seiten
...only cleanse the gold. Urntrer unto jlljim fiiimfilr tljanUs for ?iji« btsitation. AUBREY DE VERB. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...to lave, Then lay before him all thou hast. Allow Xo cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 Seiten
...heaven ':" Aubrev De Vere's thoughtful lines on Sorrow, are but an echo "f the divine teaching : " Count each affliction, whether light or grave God's...messenger sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy recerre him : rise and bow, And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly... | |
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