 | 1863 - 518 pages
...worse. Who does not re member the saintly man's words : " A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine." But, as Sam Weller remarked of Mr. Pickwick in a certain contingency, " his most... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...this tincture for thy sake Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold ; For that which God doth touch... | |
 | Jane Eliza Leeson - 1847 - 256 pages
...to see, And what I do in any thing, To do it as for Thee. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine: Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." Whether, however, it might be in returning from the fountain, which is still pointed... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1869 - 302 pages
...what God has appointed, and what He approves if done to Him, in the spirit of the lines of Herbert : " Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th" action fine ! " The angels have their allotted duties, doubtless, and wo should see a vast difference in their... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 390 pages
...tincture, FOR THY SAKE Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch... | |
 | Servants' hall - 1849 - 312 pages
... THE SERVANTS' HALL, EDITED BY A CLERGYMAN. 1 A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." HERBERT. FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. LONDON: GILBERT AND... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1849 - 156 pages
...tincture (for Thy sake) Will not prove bright and clean. " A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that, and the action fine. " This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold ; For that which God doth touch... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 396 pages
...tincture, FOR THY SAKE, ^Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1849 - 306 pages
...purposes, the pleasing of God. Hence George Herbert — " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." II Therefore, in the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of acting, we... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1850 - 416 pages
...tincture, — FOR THY SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that, and the action, line. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold ; For that which God doth touch... | |
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