 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
 | Toiling - 1870 - 268 pages
...me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see ; And what I do in any thing, To do it as for Thee. "All may of Thee partake, Nothing can be so mean Which with this tincture, For Thy take, Will not grow bright and clean. " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery... | |
 | Francis Mason - 1870 - 512 pages
...may be sanctified by imparting to them a Christian motive, as the quaint George Herbert sings : — "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 R. W. Stott - 1961 - 132 pages
...evangelism than huper tou onomatos autou, 'for the sake of His [or simply 'the'] Name' (Rom. 1:5)." All may of Thee partake; Nothing can be so mean Which, with this tincture, for Thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. —George Herbert 1593-1632 It is, then,... | |
 | Joseph Needham - 1983 - 616 pages
...(£#,485). The Gibson edition contains also the 'Life of MrG. H.[+ 159310 -f 1 632]' by Izaak Walton. All may of thee partake; Nothing can be so mean, Which...Tincture (for thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. This is the famous Stone That turneth all to Gold; For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for... | |
 | Geoffrey Wainwright - 1984 - 626 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. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery... | |
 | George Herbert - 1981 - 382 pages
...on glass, On it may stay his eye; 10 Or if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heav'n espy. All may of thee partake: Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture523 (for thy sake) IS Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery... | |
 | Thomas F. Healy - 1986 - 180 pages
...Crashaw allow their views of Christian liberty and an ideal comprehensiveness to be equated with license: All may of thee partake Nothing can be so mean, Which...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... | |
 | Canterbury Press - 1989 - 540 pages
...looks on glass, On it may stay his eye; Or if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. 3 All may of thee partake; Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, 'for thy sake', Will not grow bright and clean. 4 A servant with this clause Makes drudgery... | |
 | George Herbert - 1991 - 500 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, Which...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... | |
 | Michael C. Schoenfeldt - 1991 - 364 pages
...monarch, the poem proposes a vision of social democracy insulated from such hierarchical distinctions: All may of thee partake: Nothing can be so mean, Which...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... | |
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