| 1855 - 576 páginas
...pale proper. On a chief cousu of the first, a dust clout of the fourth, having upon it the motto, — 'A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room as for God's laws, Makes that and the action fine-' Crest, the owl of Minerva." I handed in Dorry and took... | |
| George Herbert, Robert Aris Willmott - 1855 - 366 páginas
...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 th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch... | |
| William Maxwell Hetherington - 1856 - 118 páginas
...me, my God and King, In all things Hiee to see; And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee. u A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine;...room as for thy laws Makes that and the action fine. " This is the famous stone Which turneth all to gold, For that which God doth touch and own Cannot... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...timber, never gives. The Answer. Like summer friends, Flies of estates and sunnen shine. The Elixir. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ;...room as for thy laws Makes that and the action fine. The Church Porch. A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. Dare... | |
| William Lyle - 1856 - 88 páginas
...everything he does. Old Herbert's rugged verses are full both of Christian feeling and worldly wisdom — " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws, Makes that an action fine." It is as right to be minutely exact in small things as to be great in affairs of high... | |
| Stories - 1857 - 190 páginas
...: 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 divine,...as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." George Herbert. Stories TOR I. DECEIT AND DISHONESTY. H. " PBOPEB PRIDE." m. rraE CLOTHES. IV. MISCHIEF-MAKINa.... | |
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1857 - 436 páginas
...Nothing can be so mean, Which, with this tincture, — FOB Tnr SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery divine...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... | |
| Jane Anne Winscom - 1857 - 364 páginas
...Teach me, my God and King, In all things thee to see And what I do in anything, 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 th' action fine." HERBERT. ELEANOR FAWCETT was a soldier's daughter. Before Major Sterling's removal... | |
| 1872 - 806 páginas
...have discovered in the make-believe deity of her broom ? Laborarc est orare. " A /•/.!.•<"•• with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." Our Bibf's culinary functions constitute a priestly office, in the mysteries of which... | |
| 1857 - 272 páginas
...your heavenly Master ; to love Him, to obey Him, to resist all temptation. An old poet has said, — " Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine * ; " meaning, that however little the thing is, if we do it because it is our duty, we shall be serving... | |
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