 Let us (said He) pour on him all we can. Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way, Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure. When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone...  The Temple: And the Country Parson - Stran 240avtor: George Herbert - 1842 - 369 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | George Herbert - 1877 - 120 strani
...Heart, as joys in love. THE PULLEY. i]HEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span." So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honor, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 332 strani
...both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. E. Waller. THE GIFT OF REST. WHEN God at first made Man, Having a glass of blessings...lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flow'd ; then wisdom, honour, pleasure : When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 strani
...view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. £. Waller. THE GIFT OF REST. 1 95 THE GIFT OF REST. WHEN God at first made Man, Having a glass of blessings...lie, Contract into a span. , So strength first made a way; Then beauty flow'd ; then wisdom, honour, pleasure When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 strani
...live to show his power, who once did bring My joys to weep, and now my griefs to sing. THE PULLEY. WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings...lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way ; Then beauty flow'd, then wisdom, honour, pleasure : When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 strani
...voice fell, like a falling star — Excelsior ! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. THE GIFTS OF GOD. WHRN ala :2 :2 :2 a way ; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honor, pleasure : When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 strani
...Death, and Devil come short of me. THE PULLEY. When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessing standing by; Let us (said he) pour on him all we can...dispersed lie Contract into a span. So strength first made a way ; Then beauty flow'd, then wisdom, honour, pleasure; When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | Helen Gardner - 1967 - 340 strani
...Having a glasse of blessings standing by; Let us (said he) poure on him all we can ; Let the worlds riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way ; Then beautie flow'd, then wisdome, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | Stephen Prickett - 1986 - 324 strani
...the same image in two major devotional poets just over a hundred years apart. First George Herbert: When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings...riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span.' ( The Pulley 1 633) The crux, of course, lies in that last line: 'Contract into a span'. 'Contract'... | |
 | R. B. Onians, Richard Broxton Onians - 1988 - 606 strani
...To the тгШсч we shall return.5 1 Od. iv, 207 if. 1 They appear in George Herbert's imitation : 'When God at first made Man Having a glass of blessings...standing by Let us (said He) pour on him all we can . . . So strength first made a way, Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure,' etc. 1 1 was... | |
 | George Herbert - 1991 - 500 strani
...I live to show his power, who once did bring My joys to weep, and now my griefs to sing. The Pulley When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings...lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
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