IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not ; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen... Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends - 第 21 頁Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) 著 - 1891完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 頁
...of it, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness ..." " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake." Works. — Stevenson wrote entertaining travels, such as An Inland Voyage (1878), the record of a canoe... | |
| New York Public Library - 1914 - 616 頁
...passenger and his observations of the steerage in a voyage from Scotland to New York. Underwoods. (Poems.) "If I have faltered more or less In my great task...pleasure take .And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I. Choose t ho«, before that spirit die. A piercing pain, a killing sin, And... | |
| Francis Bail Pearson - 1914 - 280 頁
...close with the prayer which Robert Louis Stevenson expresses so cogently in his THE CELESTIAL SURGEON. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Chooose Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And... | |
| 1914 - 878 頁
...did not have in mind a more serious aspect of this same mood when he wrote the familiar lines, — If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake. Even Stevenson called his happiness a 'great task'; and it was no wonder. For him, and for many, it... | |
| Ella Lyman Cabot, Fannie Fern Andrews, Fanny E. Coe, Mabel Hill, Mary McSkimmon - 1914 - 420 頁
...add to the feast. DECEMBER: GRATITUDE For the Teacher: THE CELESTIAL SURGEON' ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake. Suggestions for morning talks For every gift or kindness we receive, we ought to show kindness in return... | |
| Ariadne Gilbert - 1914 - 452 頁
...Mount Auburn. "A man who Fortune's buffets and rewards Hath ta'en with equal thanks." XII STEVENSON If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake." Robert Louis Stevenson. XII THE LIGHTHOUSE-BUILDER'S SON IF you had lived in Edinburgh sixty years... | |
| Ariadne Gilbert - 1914 - 452 頁
...Mount Auburn. " A man who Fortune's buffets and rewards Hath ta'en with equal thanks." XII STEVENSON " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake." Robert Louis Stevenson. XII THE LIGHTHOUSE-BUILDER'S SON IF you had lived in Edinburgh sixty years... | |
| Durant Drake - 1914 - 480 頁
...serve the right, a readiness to accept the imperfect, and eyes to see the beauty that surrounds us. " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...and summer rain, Knocked on my sullen heart in vain. . . ." If, in short, we have not disciplined ourselves to happiness, it may well be maintained that... | |
| Richard Crashaw - 1914 - 136 頁
...Methought I heard one calling, ' Child ' ; 35 And I replied, ' My Lord.' G. HERBERT. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes 5 Have moved me not j if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart... | |
| John James MacNeill - 1914 - 218 頁
...Celestial Surgeon," offered when he feared the loss of the keen appreciation of life's common joys: If I have faltered more or less, In my great task...race, And shown no glorious morning face; If beams of happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain, Knocked... | |
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