 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...our hearts with wisdom talk Along Life's dullest dreariest walk ! We need not bid, for cloister' d cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Eoom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more ; content with these,... | |
 | Willoughby William T. Balfour - 1856 - 366 pages
...countless price God will provide for sacrifice. We need not bid for cloistered cell, Our neighbours, and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves...trivial round, the common task Would furnish all, that we can ask. Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. Seek we no more, content... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1912 - 572 pages
...and be. crucified and the third day rise again) authentic, and what is its authority T HENRICUS. [2. Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. ' Christian Year * — ' Morning.' 3. Plato, 'Tiniieus,' 22 B, said by the Egyptian priest.] THROWING... | |
 | John Keble - Church year - 1914 - 610 pages
...would all around us rise ! How would our hearts with wisdom talk Along Life's dullest dreariest walk ! We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more ; content with these,... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - English essays - 1914 - 278 pages
...the complementary colours and afterimages. For, as Keble rightly thought, it is a dangerous exploit to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The spectacle of his hinder parts thus presented to the world may be quite other than the winder intended.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1915 - 544 pages
...Rightly did Keble repudiate this view of the claim of Christ : ' We need not bid, for cloister'd eel. Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God.' From the point of view indicated... | |
 | Literature - 1916 - 884 pages
...questioning. There is no sense of Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine. or of The trivial round, the common task Would furnish all we ought to ask. 588 589 Nature is "vainly sweet," and the eye looks out on the recurring pageants of the seasons with... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...[1795-1846] "WE NEED NOT BID, FOR CLOISTERED CELL" WE need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbor Room to deny ourselves; a road , To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more; content with these... | |
 | Ernest Boys - 1884 - 610 pages
...of the first importance ; not to despise the very smallest, but to perform even it as "unto God." " The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask, Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. " 2nd. To undertake no work outside which... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - English language - 1919 - 480 pages
...Triton of the minnows. (Coriolanus.) 1117. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), Coriolanus, Act iii. sc. I. The trivial round, the common task. Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God. 1118. JOHN KEBLE (1792-1866), The Christian... | |
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We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky: The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring... 
