| William Logan Fisher - 1859 - 260 páginas
...much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of of God." Hence George Herbert, — "A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine...as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." Mozart, on being asked by Baron V — • — , as to his manner of composing, gave, in substance,... | |
| Golden year - 1859 - 254 páginas
...poet, which relates to this. George Herbert, speaking of doing things for Christ's sake, says : — ' A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine :...as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.' " " Even sweeping a room ! " exclaimed Gertrude ; " such a small, mean work ! I will try to go on,... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 páginas
...it much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God. Hence George Herbert — " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ;...as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." We treat God with irreverence by banishing Him from our .thoughts, not by referring to his will on... | |
| One of themselves (pseud.) - 1859 - 484 páginas
...genius never caught the reflection of red-taped religionism, he feels that " All may of Thee partake : A servant with this clause ^ Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room as for Thy sake, Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold, For that which... | |
| May Coverley (fict.name.) - 1860 - 274 páginas
...used to be often saying them : — " 'All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean That with this tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean....Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." " Miss Davis listened with evident satisfaction ; and I am afraid that, notwithstanding... | |
| National association for the promotion of social science - 1860 - 800 páginas
...of the girls, and infuse some of George Herbert's Elixir into their housework, teaching them that, A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine;...as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine:— such a presence would give to our girls precisely what we most want for them—a sense of the gracefulness... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1860 - 292 páginas
...which actuated the Christian poet in the quaint lines — A servant in this cause Makes service half divine ; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that, and the action, fine. It is only in the fastidious conventionality of later ages that a false shame quenches enthusiasm,... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison] [Boyd - 1861 - 468 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:...as for Thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine. We have all in our mind some abstracted and idealized picture of what the country parsonage, as well... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - 1861 - 474 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:...as for Thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine. 'We have all in our mind some abstracted and idealized picture of what the country parsonage, as well... | |
| Thomas McNicoll - 1861 - 404 páginas
...anything To do it as for Thee. * * * " A fervant with this claufe Makes drudgery divine : Who fweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." and certainly one at the fame time fo original and amufing was never read. Of courfe, we do not intend... | |
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