 | Willoughby William T. Balfour - 1856 - 366 Seiten
...high, For sinful man beneath the sky. The trivial round, the common task Would furnish all, that we can ask. Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. Seek we no more, content with these, Let present rapture, comfort, ease, As Heaven shall bid them,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 Seiten
...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 us, daily, nearer God. Only, 0 Lord, in thy dear love Fit us for perfect rest above; And help us, this and every day, To live... | |
 | Henry Clay Fish - 1857 - 866 Seiten
...cloistered cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell : The trivial round, the common task, May furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." It is true indeed that, if in no other way could we prepare for an eternal world than by retiring from... | |
 | Henry Clay Fish - 1857 - 874 Seiten
...cloistered cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell : The trivial round, the common task, May furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." It is true indeed that, if in no other way could we prepare for an eternal world than by retiring from... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 Seiten
...ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. 230 The trivial round, the Common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more ; content with these, Let present Rapture, Comfort, Ease, As Heaven shall bid them,... | |
 | Edward J. Dent - 1979 - 320 Seiten
...a climax in line 4 itself. Take another example: The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. This is not quite so exciting, but more sophisticated. Observe, in line 3, the ingenious dodge by which... | |
 | Daniel Cottom - 1987 - 276 Seiten
...Christian Year(in which sympathy is also a key work): "The trivial round, the common task, / Would furnish all we ought to ask; / Room to deny ourselves; a road / To bring us, daily, nearer God."' Of course, labor in Eliot's time and in the times of which she wrote would exceed the individual because... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 532 Seiten
..."The Christian Year," would have us remember that The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. For well-nigh thirty years in Nazareth, Jesus knew all about this "trivial round, the common task,"... | |
 | Canterbury Press - 1989 - 540 Seiten
...daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask, Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. Only, O Lord, in thy dear love Fit us for perfect rest above; And help us this and every day To live... | |
 | Charles R. Henery - 1995 - 176 Seiten
...trifling, that it may not be thus sacrificed to Him."" 3 The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves, a road. To bring us daily nearer God. 14 Such a course, he suggests, is recommended by the greatest Anglican writers, such as Hooker, Jeremy... | |
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The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God. 
