 | 1892 - 522 pages
...may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, 11 And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness— Great is the glory, for the strife is hard! IV. FROM the dark chambers of dejection freed, Spurning the unprofitable... | |
 | Hiram Corson - 1892 - 246 pages
...may, tThrough long-lived pressure of obscure distress, AStill to be strenuous for the bright reward, J And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard! 3 ji, Four of the six beautiful sonnets which Longfellow prefixed... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 614 pages
...desert And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress. Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in...Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness : — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! XII. THE world is too much with us : late and soon, Getting... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 588 pages
...desert And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress. Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in...Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness :— Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! 1802. XIt. THE world is too much with us : late and soon. Getting... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...desert : And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in...— Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness : Great is the glory, for the strife Is hard I ELEGIAC VERSES. FEBRUARY, l8l6. " REST, rest, perturbed Earth... | |
 | Mary R. L. Bryce - 1896 - 264 pages
...the purposes of our higher life, and beware of subjecting ourselves to these circumstances : — ' Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay.' " The thought finds echo in Veitch's words (to Nicolson), " Really a man has to make exertions for... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...desert. And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in...Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! 1815. NOVEMBER I. How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...desert : And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in...— Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness : Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! ELEGIAC VERSES. FEBRUARY, l8l6. " REST, rest, perturbed Earth... | |
 | Lloyd Mifflin - 1897 - 222 pages
...desert. And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in...Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard I 'f3 oa £ of J. HOUSTON MIFFLIN Obiit MDCCCLXXXVIII N idealist... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1897 - 258 pages
...desert. And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in...Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! SURPRISED by joy — impatient as the Wind I turned to share... | |
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... Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part, Heroically fashioned — to infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft... 
