 | 1866 - 224 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." Vineyards in the East were almost as common as gardens with us (Deut. viii. 8 ;... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1866 - 436 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 idealised picture of what the country... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1866 - 304 pages
...SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. For God's Sake. 169 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 - 1866 - 456 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." Therefore, in the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of acting, we have... | |
 | Leonore Davidoff - 1995 - 294 pages
...relationship to the social order. As the well-known stanza runs: A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that and th'acrion fine. Such suhordination can merge into sweeping, or scruhhing floors as a humiliation and... | |
 | Behrman House - 1968 - 134 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 " (Herbert). nwnp,? WTTY si rrin 7'is'ltt ^i (a) : f?^v>sg S oibsisni n^ia rgsb,arn... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 pages
...structure in a winding stair?" 29 And of course "The Elixir" supplies a precedent for "the trivial round": A servant with this clause Makes drudgerie divine:...room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine. 30 Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love Fit us for perfect Rest above; And help us, this and every day, To... | |
 | 1910 - 636 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." — George Herbert. Thus let us approach all the uses of water. We may not all serve... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...two "profitable servants" in the parable of the talents. 2 A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine: Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine. GEORGE HERBERT, (1593-1633) British poet, clergyman. "The Elixir," st. 5, The Temple (1633). Repr.... | |
 | Geoffrey Wainwright - 1997 - 208 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 and... | |
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