| George Herbert - 1842 - 400 páginas
...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 th' action, fine. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold ; For that, which God doth touch and own, Cannot... | |
| 1849 - 660 páginas
...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." • The same sublime motive makes great sacrifices to be counted little, and little... | |
| 1863 - 518 páginas
...worse. Who does not re member the saintly man's words : " A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine." But, as Sam Weller remarked of Mr. Pickwick in a certain contingency, " his most... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 páginas
...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... | |
| Jane Eliza Leeson - 1847 - 256 páginas
...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." Whether, however, it might be in returning from the fountain, which is still pointed... | |
| Ann Jane - 1869 - 302 páginas
...what God has appointed, and what He approves if done to Him, in the spirit of the lines of Herbert : " Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th" action fine ! " The angels have their allotted duties, doubtless, and wo should see a vast difference in their... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 390 páginas
...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... | |
| Servants' hall - 1849 - 312 páginas
... THE SERVANTS' HALL, EDITED BY A CLERGYMAN. 1 A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." HERBERT. FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. LONDON: GILBERT AND... | |
| Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1849 - 156 páginas
...tincture (for Thy sake) Will not prove 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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 396 páginas
...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... | |
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