 PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o:er thee swell and throng ; They will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, And faints...  The Christian Pioneer - Page 751866Full view - About this book
 | Mary E. Doyle - 1909 - 508 pages
...Countree But is lord of the earldom as much as he. — JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...And faints at every woe. Faith's meanest deed more favor bears, Where hearts and wills are weigh'd, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pages
...faces smile, Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile. JH NEWMAN. 699. FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, Faith's meanest deed more favour bears, Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports,... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - 1909 - 284 pages
...was torn from top to bottom. He was as poor as before. — From the Russian of IVAN KRILOFF. Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. — CARDINAL NEWMAN. « THE FROST bustle diamonds quivering cupboard pearls margin bevies valley The... | |
 | John Sheridan Zelie - 1909 - 132 pages
...the brake to his restless spirit, as he does in the poem called " Flowers without Fruit " : * Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. [ 34 ] " But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - 1909 - 284 pages
...before. — From the Russian of IVAN KRILOFF. Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er tliee swell and throng ; They will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. — CARDINAL NEWMAN. THE FROST bustle diamonds quivering cupboard pearls margin bevies valley The frost... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 642 pages
...smile, Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile. JH NEWMAN. 699. FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must bo done, Faith's meanest deed more favour bears, Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest... | |
 | A. E. Sharp - 1911 - 264 pages
...man can take it away from him ; an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. 14. Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee swell and throng. 15. Little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 16. The same... | |
 | Edward Bliss Reed - 1912 - 636 pages
...thought are Newman's deprecations of these "brightest transports" which "bloom their hour and fade": " But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious...when hard service must be done, And faints at every woe."2 1 AR Waller, Poems by Richard Crashaw, Cambridge, 1904, p. 280. 2 Flowers without Fruit. If... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - 1913 - 240 pages
...Countree But is lord of the earldom as much as he. — JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...And faints at every woe. Faith's meanest deed more favor bears, Where hearts and wills are weigh'd, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which... | |
 | John Henry Newman, Floris Delattre - 1914 - 334 pages
...Which I have loved long since, and lost nwhile. At Sea. June 16, 1833. FLOWEBS -WITHOUT FRUIT Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be donc, And faints at every woe. Faith's meanest deed more favour bears, Where hearts and wills are weigh'd,... | |
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