 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
 | Ella Sterling Mighels - American literature - 1918 - 432 pages
..."Poems by Sam Boolh" ; Neal Publishing Company, 66 Fremont Street, San Francisco. "GET LEAVE TO WORK" Get leave to work — In this world 'tis the best you get at all; For God in cursing gives better gifts Than man in benediction. God says sweat For foreheads, men say... | |
 | Charles Edward Locke - 1919 - 228 pages
...acts of generosity."1 True happiness is hidden away in honest toil. The busy man is the contented man! "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;... | |
 | Warren Wood - American fiction - 1926 - 370 pages
...Osgood. It is Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who strikes a new and higher note in this pa:an to labor: ..." Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all." He admits that this is a hard saying, " The truth of the proposition that work, in itself, is the best... | |
 | Education - 1904 - 900 pages
...that life is all play ; and this false view is, unfortunately, not confined to the infant schools. Get leave to work In this world- — 'tis the best you get at all, wrote Mrs. Browning ; but we are sometimes unwilling that the children should have the pleasure which... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1889 - 802 pages
...end — work which, though oftentimes a weariness to the flesh, yet in itself carries its own reward. Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all. grammar with an insular accent in three foreign languages ; but not one of these accomplishments presents... | |
 | Elizabeth R. Epperly - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...diary: I flung down my pen and bowed my head over my desk in utter thankfulness that I could work again. '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.' So wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning... | |
 | Elizabeth Darling, Lesley Whitworth - History - 2007 - 246 pages
...Catalogue, which had been 'f1tly chosen'20 from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem Aurora Leigh of 1856: '... Get leave to work / In this world: 'tis the best you get at all'.21 The review in the Pall Mall Gazette commented: though the regular trades - such as the textile... | |
 | 1887 - 454 pages
...state, and particularly serviceable in cases of impaired digestion or loss of digestive power. Work. 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,"... | |
 | 1916 - 282 pages
...more_dangerous_than_through clothing. 5 36 6 24 0 7 35 SIXTH— Labor is Worship. AII labor is noble and holy. "Get leave to work in this world — 'tis the best you get at all." THE SPITTING HABIT "Do you thoughtlessly or intentionally spit upon the sidewalks and pavements? If... | |
 | William Cunningham - Work - 1902 - 108 pages
...mankind for a discipline, as if it were a mere punishment and a curse ; but that is a misconception. 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. The divine sentence has proved... | |
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