 Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, "Sweat For foreheads," men say "crowns," and so we are crowned, Ay, gashed by some tormenting circle of steel...  The Smith College Monthly - Page 1851903Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1903 - 704 pages
...larks climb, And there, in a certain house in Kensington, Three years I lived and worked. Get leivt to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all ; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, " Sw For foreheads,"... | |
 | English periodicals - 1904 - 622 pages
...had work enough by day. And for this she was thankful. In Mrs. Browning's words she might have said : Get leave to work In this world, 'tis the best you get at all. For God in cursing gave us better gifts Than men in benediction, God says "Sweat GG 2 For foreheads... | |
 | Harry Campbell - 1907 - 448 pages
...no matter how high her social position, should have some employment. As her poet sister has said : " Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all ; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get." The physician should have as much to say in this matter as the priest, for idleness... | |
 | Harry Campbell - Medicine - 1907 - 440 pages
...no matter how high her social position, should have some employment. As her poet sister has said : " Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all ; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get." The physician should have as much to say in this matter as the priest, for idleness... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - Neurology - 1908 - 630 pages
...enters a shop or work room and begins to forget his woes in an enlistment of interests outside of self. "Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all: Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get." — Butler Hospital Report. The weave room is mentioned in this report. The... | |
 | College yearbooks - 1909 - 364 pages
...(1); Class Pin Committee (1); Gun Club (1); Fencing Club (1); Rowing Club (1); King's Crown (1, 2, 3). "Get leave to work in this world — 'tis the best you get at all." ALBERT Lou1s BAUM, New York City. General Honors (1, 2); Clinton Club (1). " The most wasted oj all... | |
 | Education - 1909 - 694 pages
...entitled to the incidents unless he has done his main duty first. In the words of Mrs. Browning: "* * * Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all ; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. * * * Get work ; get work ; Be... | |
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - Women - 1909 - 294 pages
...gracefully expressed it as Mrs. Barret ._ Browning in "Aurora Leigh," when, urging all to work, she adds : "Get leave to work ; In this world 'tis the best you get at all, For God in cursing, gives us better gifts Than man in benediction." But even with her it was too much... | |
 | Domestic economy - 1910 - 738 pages
...upon personal advancement should seek other lines. Let us say with Mrs. Browning in Auora Leigh: " Get leave to work in this world, 'tis the best you get at all;" and again, with another writer: "We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our doing; and our best doing... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - History - 1912 - 590 pages
...the sustenance and salvation of the race. And no longer were mere poetic idealism the sublime words, "Get leave to work In this world, 'tis the best you get at all. For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says "Sweat For foreheads"... | |
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