 We need not bid, for cloistered 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...  Conversations on Nature and Art - Page 3321839 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Keble - 1827 - 398 pages
...wisdom talk Along Life's dullest dreariest walk ! We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves...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,... | |
 | John Keble - 1829 - 406 pages
...neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : n 2 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. Seek we no more; conteiit with these,... | |
 | 1853 - 1142 pages
...seclusion from the world that does violence to man's social nature. " We need not bid, for cloister'd ceU, Our neighbor 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." This view of Christian communion... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 240 pages
...heaven in each we see : Nome loftening gleam of love, and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. Such is the bliss of souls serene, When they have...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,... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 236 pages
...heaven in each we see: Some ioftening gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. Such is the bliss of souls serene, When they have...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask } Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Grant it eternal Trinity, The Father,... | |
 | 1836 - 814 pages
...business may be combined with fervour of spirit. " We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour or our work farewell ; Nor strive to wind ourselves too...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny ourselves : a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. " Le Maitre retired into a private... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 256 pages
...talk Along life's dullest dreariest walk ! We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbor and onr work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high,...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,... | |
 | 1836 - 426 pages
...farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : "* Revelations xxi. 5." " 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. " Seek we no more ; content with... | |
 | 1852 - 1000 pages
...neighbour and our work farewell ; Nor rtrive to wind ourselvei too high For sinful man beneath the iky : The trivial round, the common task Would furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny ounelvei ; a road To bring ui daily nearer God." Many others I gazed upon with deep... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...wisdom talk Along life's dullest, dreariest walk ! We need not hid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell ; Nor strive to wind ourselves...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, near to God. Seek we no more ; content with these,... | |
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