 | 1872 - 844 pages
...lines after this fashion : — For as the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move and waters flow; Nothing we see but means our good As our delight or as our measure; The whole it either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. In Fuller's lively prose,... | |
 | William Pulsford - 1873 - 358 pages
...bent to one purpose, the end to which the whole creation moves; and we may say with Herbert: — " For us the winds do blow ; The earth doth rest, heaven...good, As our delight, or as our treasure: The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain,... | |
 | Spencer Timothy Hall - 1873 - 478 pages
...highest star. He is in little all the sphere : Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. For us the winds do blow ; The...we see, but means our good, As our delight, or as oar treasure : The whole is, either our cupboard of/oorf, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...highest star: He is in little all the sphere: Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. For us the winds do blow, The...good As our delight, or as our treasure; The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain,... | |
 | William Mountford - 1874 - 546 pages
...intelligence, to where there is not darkness enough for a doubt to be in. CHAPTER XXVIII. For us Ihe winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and...As our delight, or as our treasure : The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The. stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain,... | |
 | William Mountford - 1874 - 562 pages
...degrees of intelligence, to where there is not darkness enough for a doubt to be in. CHAPTER XXVIII. For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven...fountains flow. Nothing we see but means our good, Aa our delight, or as our treasure : The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 pages
...Herbert, who himself possessed some share of the mystic gin :— ELIZABETH BABBETT BBOWNING. 471 For ns the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move,...fountains flow ; Nothing we see, but means our good, As onr delight, or as our treasure ;, The whole is either onr cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure.... | |
 | George Herbert - 1874 - 396 pages
...they Finde their acquaintance there. For us the windes do blow, 25 The earth resteth, heav'n moueth, fountains flow; Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure; The whole is either our cupboard of food Or cabinet of pleasure. 30 The starres have us to bed, Night draws the... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1874 - 764 pages
...species : — " For us the winds do blow ; The esrth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow. Xothing we see but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure : The whole is either our cupboard of food Or cabinet of pleasure. " The stars have us to bed , Sight draws the curtain,... | |
 | George Herbert - 1874 - 386 pages
..." When we consider man, what" (in grandeur, incomprehensibility, and terror) " are the heavens ?" " For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow." Many of HERBERT'S modern admirers, while quoting the rest of these verses on " Man," omit its last... | |
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For us, the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see, but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure; The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. 
