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" 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 185
1903
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 15

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1857 - 772 pages
...of a sublime truth vibrates in these lines, as the tone of a Cathedral bell summoning to worship. " 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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The Church

1868
...in mischief. Grown-up children are not different. Well •wrote Elizabeth Barrett 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. God says, ' Sweat For foreheads,'...
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The Church

1862
...has made all labour eacred in that paradise which for thee he has regained. For him then — " Gpt leave to work ; In this world, 'tis the best you get at «H ; For God in cursing gives us better gifts Than man ill benediction." In all the sacrifices which...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1881 - 670 pages
...rather too spiteful ! " Heine's Poems, p. 83, edition 1873, EDWARD H. MARSHALL, MA (G"' S. iii. 188). " Get leave to work In this world,— 'tis the best you get at all." Aurora Leigh (second edition, 1857), bk. iii. p. 95. HESTEK PENGELLÏ. ЯШсеПапеоив. NOTES...
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Aurora Leigh. Author's ed

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 pages
...as steep as some larks climb, And, in a certain house in Kensington, Three years I lived and worked. 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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Aurora Leigh

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Epic poetry, English - 1857 - 420 pages
...as steep as some larks climb, And, in a certain house in Kensington, Three years I lived and worked. 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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Aurora Leigh

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1857 - 404 pages
...as steep as some larks climb, And, in a certain house in Kensington, Three years I lived and worked. 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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Lady Elinor Mordaunt, Or, Sunbeams in the Castle

Margaret Maria Gordon - 1860 - 464 pages
...ill vain that build it" — Ps. cxxvii. 1. " I will direct their work in truth." — ISA. Ixi. 8. ' ' Get leave to work In this world, 'tis the best you get at all, For God in cursing gives us better gifts Than men iu benediction. God says, ' Sweat For foreheads.'...
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All for the Best: A Story of Quiet Life, Volume 2

All - 1861 - 334 pages
...other day about ' Aurora Leigh:' do you remember those brave, bright words of hers?— VOL. n. o " ' Get leave to work In this world. 'Tis the best you get at all; For God, in cursing, gires us better gifts Than men in benediction.' In action only is thorough rest...
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Poems, Volume 3

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 418 pages
...as steep as some larks climb, And, in a certain house in Kensington, Three years I lived and worked. 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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