 | Sex role - 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...tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. It is then in the minutiae of daily life and conduct that this consistency has its most beneficial... | |
 | 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,...Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that, and th' action, fine. HERBERT. ERCHOMENA, OR THINGS TO COME. LETTER THE THIRD. (To a Friend.} September... | |
 | Women - 1840 - 188 pages
...motive 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 tJty sake Will not grow bright and clean. I It is then in the minutiae of daily life and conduct that... | |
 | 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, Which with his tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery... | |
 | George Herbert - Christian poetry, English - 1842 - 400 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, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery... | |
 | Criticism - 1849 - 660 pages
...obedience, and exalts into inviolable sacredness the most insignificant duty. So Herbert sings : — " All may of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean,...as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." • The same sublime motive makes great sacrifices to be counted little, and little duties to be counted... | |
 | Christian Henry Bateman - 1857 - 534 pages
...Published by GALL & INGLIS, 6 George Street, Edinburgh. HOULSTON & WRIGHT, London. EVERY THING TO GOLD. Which, with this tincture — For thy sake — Will...Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy cause, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold: For that... | |
 | Literature - 1869 - 862 pages
...looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or if he pleaseth, through it paas, And then the heiiv'n espy. All may of Thee partake; Nothing can be so mean, Which...Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy l»wn, Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...season 'd timber never gives ; Hut, though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. Religion. ran, and cried ; Wheu heaven was uam'd, they loos'd...Then sprang she forth, they follow'd her amain. Not This is the famous stone That hirneth all to gold, For that which God doth touch and own, Cannot for... | |
 | 1863 - 518 pages
...sign-painter. But the next verse is smeared even worse. Who does not re member the saintly man's words : " A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine...as for Thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine." But, as Sam Weller remarked of Mr. Pickwick in a certain contingency, " his most formiliar friend voodn't... | |
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A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that and the action fine. 
