 | William Logan Fisher - 1859 - 260 pages
...purposes, the pleasing of 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." Mozart, on being asked by Baron V — • — , as to his manner of composing, gave,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 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." We treat God with irreverence by banishing Him from our .thoughts, not by referring... | |
 | Leonora G. BELL - 1859 - 186 pages
...tincture, FOB 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." And so even the youngest girl, if she acts on this principle of making the service... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 pages
...purjoses, 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." We treat God with irreverence by banishing Him from our thoughts, not by referring... | |
 | May Coverley (fict.name.) - 1860 - 274 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 th' action fine." " Miss Davis listened with evident satisfaction ; and I am afraid that, notwithstanding the seriousness... | |
 | Book - 1860 - 300 pages
...tincture (for Thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine i Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold ; For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1860 - 292 pages
...which actuated the Christian poet in the quaint lines — A servant in this cause Makes service half divine ; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that, and the action, fine. It is only in the fastidious conventionality of later ages that a false shame quenches... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - 1861 - 474 pages
...to see: And, what I do in anything, 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. 'We have all in our mind some abstracted and idealized picture of what the country... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 468 pages
...to see: And, what I do in anything, 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. We have all in our mind some abstracted and idealized picture of what the country... | |
 | 1862 - 660 pages
...partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture (for thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgerie 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 and... | |
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