| Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 páginas
...merry old strain, Robert of Lincoln, come back again. Chee, chee, chee. William Cullen Bryant. KEST. Rest is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to one's sphere : 'Tis the brook's motion, Clear without strife; Fleeting to ocean, After its life : 'Tis... | |
| 1891 - 400 páginas
...practice : Is there a teacher, who reads at all, who has not chanced upon the quotation this summer? "Rest is not quitting the busy career, Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere." Never was a couplet written so admirably adapted to express the inmost feeling of summer school proprietors.... | |
| Medical Association of Georgia - 1884 - 508 páginas
...his mind in timss of leisure. Rest in work. He experienced the beauty of Goethe's idea of rest : " Rest is not quitting The busy career ; Rest is the fitting Of self to one's sphere. " 'Tis the brook's motion, Clear without strife ; Fleeting to ocean, After this life.... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1894 - 782 páginas
...travel, scenery, botanical collections and curiosities of all kinds were among the stores I had gathered. "Rest is not quitting the busy career Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere." The unconscious fitting that goes on all the time, when we have the interest of our school and our... | |
| 1885 - 460 páginas
...appended, which had previously been published in the " Christian Register." It contained these lines : " Rest is not quitting The busy career : Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. " "Tis the brook's motion Clear without strife, Fleeting to ocean After its life. " 'Tis loving and... | |
| 1886 - 712 páginas
...seems long, the way rough, and the load heavy — when he fain would turn aside and rest. But know that "Rest is not quitting The busy career : Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. " 'Tis loving and serving The highest and best ; 'Tis onwards, unswerving, And that is true rest."... | |
| 1886 - 216 páginas
...the grass to cover them, and the lichen to feed on them, and are ploughed down into dust. RUSKIN. " Rest is not quitting the busy career, Rest is the fitting of self to one's sphere. " Tis the brook's motion, — clear, without strife, Fleeting to ocean after this life.... | |
| Lucy Larcom - 1887 - 252 páginas
...death ! else, wherefore should the eye Of man converse with immortality ? WOHDSWOETH. 28 February. Rest is not quitting The busy career ; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 'T is the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean After its life. 'T is loving and serving... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 páginas
...Else 'tis no rest. Wouldst behold beauty Near thee ? all round ? Only hath duty Such a sight found. Rest is not quitting The busy career ; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 'Tis the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean After its life. Deeper devotion Nowhere... | |
| Gordon Augustus Southworth - 1887 - 300 páginas
...Freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. 28. Rest is not quitting the busy career ; Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere. CHAPTER XVI. PHRASES, CLAUSES, AND COMBINED SENTENCES. REVIEW EXERCISE. 302. 1. What are sentences?... | |
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