 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 bring...  Letts's illustrated household magazine - Page 1101883Full view - About this book
 | Angelo (fict. name.) - 1854 - 326 pages
...tottered, then fell upon the breast of his child, and wept ! CHAPTER XIV. " We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell ; Nor strive...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God." KEBLE. " Seek not... | |
 | Stories - 1854 - 188 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...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." Ay, it is in " the... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - Conduct of life - 1854 - 180 pages
...do, do M to the glory of God."— 1 COB. x. 31. " We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask— Eoom to deny ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God." — KEPLB. " All... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1854 - 204 pages
...present feeling of satisfaction at having done her duty. CHAPTER VII. " We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...beneath the sky : The trivial round, the common task, Can furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. CHRISTIAN... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - Christian life - 1854 - 270 pages
...God."— 1 COE. x. 31. " We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, JJor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask, — Koom to deny ourselves, — a road To bring us daily nearer God." — KEELE. "... | |
 | John Cumming - 1855 - 258 pages
...from the pulpit, or go out as a missionary to the heathen. Some poet has very beautifully said, — " We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour...farewell ; Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For siuful man beneath the sky. The daily round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask —... | |
 | Rev. H. Musgrave Wilkins, M.A., - 1854 - 262 pages
...treasures still, of countless price, God wjll provide for sacrifice. We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky—KEBLE. Heralds of light, rosy hues, Which before the sun (is) born, as-he-goes-forth* Upon-his-path,... | |
 | Hymns - 1854 - 690 pages
...wisdom talk, Along life's dullest, dreariest walk ! 3 We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : 4 The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...in all themselves deny. How would our hearts with wisdom talk Along life's dullest, dreariest, walk? We need not bid for cloistered cell, Our neighbour...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves a road, To load us daily nearer God. KEEBLE. THE FARMER'S... | |
 | Charles Frederick Mackenzie (missionary bp. of Central Africa.) - 1855 - 276 pages
...engaged a good many of her young friends to meet them. CHAPTER XIII. " We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." THE boys were astir... | |
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