 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
 | Joseph Stratford - 1865 - 448 pages
...me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see ; And what I do in anything, To do it as for Thee. ' All may of Thee partake, Nothing can be so mean Which...tincture for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. An interesting parallel might be drawn between Benjamin Parsons and William Tyndale. Born in the same... | |
 | George Herbert - 1865 - 348 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, Which with his tincture (for thy sake v, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine. Who sweeps a room,... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1865 - 324 pages
...piece of pinchbeck has been put in. Herbert's third verse is omitted. Then comes the well-known verse : All may of Thee partake: Nothing can be so mean, Which, with this tincture, FOR THY SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. CONCERNING CUTTING AND CARVING. 818 This... | |
 | 1865 - 362 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, Which with this tincture (for Thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. This is the famous stone That turneth... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1865 - 484 pages
...for ye serve the Lord Christ." No less truly, then, than quaintly did good George Herbert sing : " 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... | |
 | John Godson - 1866 - 132 pages
...looks on glasse On it may stay his eye, Or if he pleaseth, through it passe, And then the heaven espie. 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... | |
 | 1866 - 238 pages
...looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heavens 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... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1866 - 304 pages
...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, Which, with this tincture, — FOR THY SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. For God's Sake. 169 A servant, with... | |
 | Emily Elizabeth Steele Elliott - 1866 - 248 pages
...looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or, if he pleases, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean Which, with this tincture, FOK THY SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery... | |
 | 1866 - 224 pages
...Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God." " 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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