Among their roll of gifts; for Strength she yearns, For Strength, her idol once, too long her toy. Lo, Strength is of the plain root-Virtues born: Strength shall ye gain by service, prove in scorn, Train by endurance, by devotion shape. Strength is not... The Fortnightly Review - Seite 891871 - 28 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1871 - 834 Seiten
...cyclone. VII. Behold, the Gods are with her, and are known. Whom they abandon misery persecutes No more : them half-eyed apathy may loan The happiness...brain, discerns That Pity has as little place as Joy I Among their roll of gifts ; for Strength she yearns, For Strength, her idol once, too long her toy.... | |
| George Meredith - 1887 - 180 Seiten
...cries for grief, and to the Gods she cries, For fearfully their loosened hands chastize, And icily they watch the rod's caress Ravage her flesh from...once, too long her toy. Lo, Strength is of the plain root-Virtues born : Strength shall ye gain by service, prove in scorn, Train by endurance, by devotion... | |
| 1892 - 850 Seiten
...of brain," let her put her insight to wise uses, and learn from whence true strength proceeds : — For Strength she yearns, For Strength, her idol once,...Strength shall ye gain by service, prove in scorn, Train bv endurance, by devotion shape. Strength is not won by miracle or rape. It is the offspring of the... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1895 - 472 Seiten
...brain," let her put her insight to wise uses, and learn from whence true strength proceeds : — " For Strength she yearns, For Strength, her idol once, too long her toy. Lo, Strength is of the plain root-Virtues born : Strength shall ye gain by service, prove in scorn, Train by endurance, by devotion... | |
| George Meredith - 1898 - 114 Seiten
...cries for grief, and to the Gods she cries, For fearfully their loosened hands chastize, And icily they watch the rod's caress Ravage her flesh from...once, too long her toy. Lo, Strength is of the plain root-Virtues born : Strength shall ye gain by service, prove in scorn, Train by endurance, by devotion... | |
| George Meredith - 1910 - 316 Seiten
...cries for grief, and to the Gods she cries, For fearfully their loosened hands chastize, And icily they watch the rod's caress Ravage her flesh from...once, too long her toy. Lo, Strength is of the plain root-Virtues born: Strength shall ye gain by service, prove in scorn, Train by endurance, by devotion... | |
| George Meredith - 1910 - 294 Seiten
...cries for grief, and to the Gods she cries, For fearfully their loosened hands chastize, And icily they watch the rod's caress Ravage her flesh from...once, too long her toy. Lo, Strength is of the plain root-Virtues born : Strength shall ye gain by service, prove in scorn, Train by endurance, by devotion... | |
| George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1912 - 656 Seiten
...cries for grief, and to the Gods she cries, For fearfully their loosened hands chastize, And icily they watch the rod's caress Ravage her flesh from...once, too long her toy. Lo, Strength is of the plain root-Virtues born : Strength shall ye gain by service, prove in scorn, Train by endurance, by devotion... | |
| Maud Diver - 1913 - 734 Seiten
.... . . and every failure becomes a step towards ultimate success." — PAGE, On the Pilgrim Fathers. "Lo Strength is of the plain root- virtues born; Strength...shall ye gain by service, prove in scorn; Train by endeavour, by devotion shape. Strength is not won by miracle or rape; It is the offspring of the modest... | |
| John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - 1915 - 538 Seiten
...worm; And so goes out the soul. But not of France. She cries for grief, and to the gods she cries, 155 For fearfully their loosened hands chastise, And mercilessly...brain, discerns That Pity has as little place as Joy l60 Among their roll of gifts; for Strength she yearns, For Strength, her idol once, too long her toy.... | |
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