 | Golden year - 1859 - 254 ページ
...poet, which relates to this. George Herbert, speaking of doing things for Christ's sake, says : — ' A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.' " " Even sweeping a room ! " exclaimed Gertrude ; " such... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1859 - 652 ページ
...heaven espie. All may of thee 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 drudgerie divine: Who sweeps a room as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous... | |
 | May Coverley (fict.name.) - 1860 - 274 ページ
...them : — " 'All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean That with this tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this...Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." " Miss Davis listened with evident satisfaction ; and I... | |
 | Woodcroft, One of Themselves - 1860 - 322 ページ
...George Herbert invests this department of domestic handiwork with peculiar dignity when he says — ' Who sweeps a room as for His laws, Makes that and th' action fine.' We would not be understood, however, to inculcate as part of a young lady's duty, that, ere she graces... | |
 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1860 - 800 ページ
...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; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine:— such a presence would give to our girls precisely what... | |
 | Book - 1860 - 300 ページ
...heav'n espy. All may of Thee 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 i Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - 1861 - 474 ページ
...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 the action, fine. 'We have all in our mind some abstracted and idealized... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 468 ページ
...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 the action, fine. We have all in our mind some abstracted and idealized picture... | |
 | 1862 - 660 ページ
...heaven espie. All may of thee 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 drudgerie divine : Who sweeps a room as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous... | |
 | Half hours - 1863 - 408 ページ
...heaven espy. All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be BO mean, Which with his 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 laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone • That turneth all to gold : 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. 
