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So, take and use Thy work, Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past the aim: My times be in Thy hand! Perfect the cup as planned! Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same. Rabbi Ben Ezra If there ever lived a poet to whom the best minds pour out libations, it is Robert Browning.

Colonel Menendez stood up, his delicate nostrils dilated. He glared angrily at Harley. "I mean that I perceive a certain resignation in your manner of which I do not approve." "You do not approve?" said Colonel Menendez, softly; and I thought as he stood looking down upon my friend that I had rarely seen a more formidable figure.

But, temperamentally, they were as far apart as the two countries whence came their father's stock. Uncle Denny did not approve fully of Saradokis, but finally he decided that it was good for Jim to overcome some of his New England prejudice against the immigrant class and he encouraged the young Greek to come to the house.

"So you approve of me for once?" he queried, with a rather twisted little smile. Olga remained silent for a moment, her eyes searching his face. Then she said very deliberately: "I am glad you were able to play for Miss Quentin." "But you won't commit yourself so far as to say that I have your approval even once?" Miss Lermontof leaned forward impetuously.

"Good-by, Effie, dear," said Dorothy. She kissed her friend. The doctor and the nurse walked toward the dog-cart; he helped her to mount, and then drove rapidly down the street. The vehicle was soon out of sight. "I wonder what father will think of Dorothy after this?" thought Effie to herself. The feeling that her father would really approve of her friend gave her much consolation.

Lovell was in the lead, and as we halted the commandant said to him: "We have decided to receive your cattle in the morning about ten o'clock if that hour will be convenient. I may not come over, but the quartermaster's Mr. Sanders will count for us, and you cowmen ought to agree on the numbers. We have delayed you a day, and if you will put in a bill for demurrage, I will approve it.

I have the honor to be, Sir Your most obedient and most humble servant, CHARLES STURT, Capt. 39th Regt. SIR, It having appeared to me, that after discovering such a river as the one I have described in my letter of yesterday, His Excellency the Governor would approve of my endeavouring to regain it.

England paid millions, and sacrificed ministries and men, to free the slave; and in England, you you, Donovan Pasha, and men like you, would be in the van against slavery. Yet here, where England has more influence than any other nation " "More power, not influence," Dicky interrupted smiling. "Here, you endure, you encourage, you approve of it.

The tendency of her mind is towards the contemplative, and not towards the active orders, and she will not give way to the relaxation of the rule. You had better just take the matter into your hands, feeling sure she will approve of the action in the end. A word or two on the subject in your sermon on Sunday would be very timely."

We are pinched with "nipping" airs which do not remain clear and steady, but unbend themselves in a dirty slush called snow in the papers. And just now I have no business to write you a letter, for I am torn every way by longings and doubts, not at all of a moral nature. This copy of verses, written last summer, is somewhat harmonious with my present mood, and shall be printed if you approve.