All service ranks the same with God : If now, as formerly he trod Paradise, his presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst, Are we ; there is no last nor first. Say not " a small event ! " Why " small "... The Secret of the Stream - Pagina 151di John Brown Maclean - 1907 - 187 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1845 - 1072 pagine
...her hymn, and sets out upon her unconscious mission, leaving the will for the deed, to please — " All service ranks the same with God : If now, as formerly, he trod Paradise, God's presence fills Our earth ; and each, but as God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst,... | |
| 1849 - 290 pagine
...name with God. If now, (as formerly he trod Paradise,) God's presenee fills Our earth, and eaeh but as God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst, Are we. There is no last nor first ! — Say not, a small event ! Why small ? Costs it more pain, this thing ye eall A great event should... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1849 - 326 pagine
...the same with God, If now as formerly he trod Paradise, God's presence fills Our earth, and each but as God wills Can work — God's puppets best and worst, Are we : there is no last nor first. Say not a small event ! — why small ? Costs it more pain this thing ye call A great event shall come... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1849 - 324 pagine
...in petticoats. Her morning and evening hymn is also a singular piece of devotional metaphysics : " All service ranks the same with God, If now as formerly he trod Paradise, God's presence fills Our earth, and each but as God wills Can work — God's puppets best and worst,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 406 pagine
...share In God's love : what does New-year's hymn declare ? What other meaning do these verses bear ? All service ranks the same with God : If now, as formerly...best and worst, Are we ; there is no last nor first. Say not " a small event ! " Why " small 1 " Costs it more pain than this, ye call A " great event,"... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1851 - 216 pagine
...petticoats. Her morning and evening hymn is also a singular piece of devotional metaphysics : * • All service ranks the same with God, If now as formerly he trod Paradise, God's presence fills Our earth, and each but as God wills Can work— God's puppets best and worst,... | |
| 1857 - 542 pagine
...No doubt, some way or other, hymns say right. All service is the same wilh God — With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we '- there is no last nor first! [She tleeps. This poem again exhibits Mr. Browning's fondness for symbolic teaching. That any particular... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 394 pagine
...to share In God's love: what does New-year's hymn declare ? What other meaning do these verses bear? All service ranks the same with God: If now, as formerly He trod Paradise, His presence Jills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work— God's puppets, best and ivorst, Are we ; there... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 408 pagine
...share In God's love : what does New-year's hymn declare ? What other meaning do these verses bear ? All service ranks the same with God : If now, as formerly He trod Paradise, His presence Jills Our earth, each only as . God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst, Are we ; there... | |
| Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 461 pagine
...indicate that a great tide sweeps over humanity, bearing us on its bosom whithersoever it will, so that " God's puppets, best and worst, Are we ; there is no last nor first," — I institute an examination of Benlomond to discover those generic or specific peculiarities which... | |
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