 | Criticism - 1849 - 660 pages
...Nothing can be so mean, Which with this 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." • The same sublime motive makes great sacrifices to be counted little, and little duties to be counted... | |
 | Christian Henry Bateman - 1857 - 534 pages
...EVERY THING TO GOLD. Which, with 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 cause, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold: For that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Literature - 1869 - 862 pages
...partake; Nothing can be so mean, Which with 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 l»wn, Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that... | |
 | 1872 - 722 pages
...fear of God," — that adds dignity to the lowliest occupation. George Herbert finely says, — • " Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine; " and Keble, — " The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...partake ; Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture for thy sake Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine...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 and own Cannot for... | |
 | Jane Eliza Leeson - 1847 - 256 pages
...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. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine:...as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." Whether, however, it might be in returning from the fountain, which is still pointed out at Nazareth... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 560 pages
...Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. A nen-ant with this clause, . Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps...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 and own Cannot for... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pages
...Nothing can be so mean Which, with this tincture, 'for Thy take,' Will not grow bright and clean. " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room as 'for His laws,' Makes that and th' action fine."* But full and direct knowledge can only come from instruction... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Massachusetts - 1848 - 390 pages
...; Nothing can be so mean, Which, with this 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. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for... | |
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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. 
