 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 own Cannot for...  Notes and Queries - Page 3261857Full view - About this book
 | Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 400 pages
...looks on glass, On it may stay his eye; Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heav'n espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean,...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,... | |
 | 1836 - 574 pages
...lov'st to meditate ; Thou'rt nearer to that happy home Where all the ransom'd soon shall come. ANOH. ALL may of Thee 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... | |
 | 1844 - 606 pages
...looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean,...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... | |
 | Charles Abel Heurtley - 1837 - 196 pages
...See his Life by his Son, p. 174, &c. 1 G. Herbert, Country Parson. See also his Poems, " The Elixir." All may of Thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean, Which, with this tincture, FOB THY SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean, &c. • It is recorded of Hooker, " that,... | |
 | George Herbert - 1838 - 420 pages
...looks on glass, On it may stay his eye; Or if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of thee partake.: Nothing can be so mean,...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... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1838 - 368 pages
...where he speaks of the " elixir " of piety, as decorating, and even transmuting, the lowliest employ. " All may of Thee 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... | |
 | Protestant association - 1839 - 664 pages
...nearer to that happy home Conflict, defeat, remorse, and sin. Where all the ransom'd soon shall come. All may of Thee 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... | |
 | 1839 - 168 pages
...and end of an action which makes it either dignified or mean. In the homely words of old Herbert:— All may of thee partake: Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. It is then in the minutiae of daily life... | |
 | 1840 - 694 pages
...looks on glass. On it may stay his eye ; Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heav'n espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean,...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,... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1840 - 632 pages
...looks on glass, On it may stay his eye : Or, if be pleaseth, though it pass, And all the heaven espy. All may of thee 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 drudgery... | |
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