| 1876 - 818 str.
...the same predestined end. Let us then — so says Mrs. Browning: — " Let us be content, in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it's little ! 'Twill employ Seven men, they say, to make a perfect pin. Who makes the head, content to miss the... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 420 str.
...winter, — snarling on For ever, that the world 's not paradise. Oh cousin, let us be content, in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it 's little. 'Twill employ Seven men, they say, to make a perfect pin : Who makes the head, content... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 404 str.
...winter, — snarling pn For ever, that the world 's not paradise. Oh cousin, let us be content, in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it 's little. 'Twill employ Seven men, they say, to make a perfect pin : Who makes the head, content... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 str.
...winter, — snarling on For ever, that the world 's not paradise. Oh cousin, let us be content, in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it 's little. 'Twill employ Seven men, they say, to make a perfect pin : Who makes the head, content... | |
| Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1896 - 936 str.
...circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, Angels could no more." So, "Let us be content in work, To do the thing we can ; and not presume To fret because it's little." Then if, by chance, you have become "it" in the game, do not despair. That would be like the boy who... | |
| Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1858 - 426 str.
...gratuitously, with the soup at six." He says in the end — 1 Oh, cousin, let us be content, in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it's little. 'Twill employ Seven men, they say, to make a perfect pin : Who makes the head, content to miss the... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 422 str.
...winter, — snarling on For ever, that the world's not paradise. Oh cousin, let us be content, in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it's little. 'Twill employ Seven men, they say, to make a perfect pin ! Who makes the head, content to miss the... | |
| 1862 - 378 str.
...friend," he said, " My failure Would be better than success. Oh, consin, let us be content in work To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because 'tis little. Hearken, dear, There's too much abstract willing, purposing In this poor world. We talk... | |
| Charles Knight - 1864 - 360 str.
...HALF A CENTURY : WITH Drtfab* of <£arlir Qmrnnemsts. BY CHARLES KNIGHT. " Let us be content in work To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it's little. " ELIZABETH BROWNING. Aurora Leljh. VOLUME I. ' LONDON: BRADBURY & EVANS, 11, BOUVERIE STREET. 1864.... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 418 str.
...winter, — snarling on For ever, that the world's not paradise. Oh cousin, let us be content, in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it's little. 'Twill employ Seven men, they say, to make a perfect pin ! Who makes the head, content to miss the... | |
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