| 1836 - 574 páginas
...lov'st to meditate ; Thou'rt nearer to that happy home Where all the ransom'd soon shall come. ANOH. ALL may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean,...— 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... | |
| George Herbert - 1838 - 406 páginas
...half believe, That Sin says true : but while I grieve, Thou comest and dost relieve. CLVI. THE ELIXIR. TEACH me, my God and King, In all things thee to see, And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee : Not rudely, as a beast, To run into an action ; But still to make... | |
| Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 400 páginas
...Hearken ! under pain of death, Hands and breath, Strive in this ; and love the strife. THE ELIXIR. TEACH me, my God and King, In all things thee to see ; And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee : Not rudely, as a beast, To run into an action ; But still to make... | |
| James Montgomery - 1837 - 468 páginas
...SECOND. HYMNS PRAYER AND PRAISE. CHRISTIAN PSALMIST. PART II. PRAYER AND PRAISE. 130. for Instruction. 1 TEACH me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see ; And what I do in any thing, To do it as for Thee ! 2 To scorn the Senses' sway, While still to Thee I tend : In all... | |
| 1844 - 606 páginas
...daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." — Rev . William Jay. POETRY. THE ELIXIR. BY GEORGE HERBERT. TEACH me, my God and King, In all things thee to see, And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee : Not rudely, as a beast, To run into an action ; But still to make... | |
| Charles Abel Heurtley - 1837 - 196 páginas
...See his Life by his Son, p. 174, &c. 1 G. Herbert, Country Parson. See also his Poems, " The Elixir." All may of Thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean, Which, with this tincture, FOB THY SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean, &c. • It is recorded of Hooker, " that, in four years,... | |
| John Sheppard - 1838 - 368 páginas
...where he speaks of the " elixir " of piety, as decorating, and even transmuting, the lowliest employ. " All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean,...— -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... | |
| George Herbert - 1838 - 402 páginas
...half believe, That Sin says true : but while I grieve, Thou comest and dost relieve. CLVI. THE ELIXIR. TEACH me, my God and King, In all things thee to see, And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee : Not rudely, as a beast, To run into an action ; But still to' make... | |
| George Herbert - 1838 - 420 páginas
...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... | |
| 1839 - 168 páginas
...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... | |
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