A man that 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 this tincture (for Thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with... An Old Educational Reformer, Dr Andrew Bell - Página 4por John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1881 - 182 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1841 - 730 páginas
...see ; And what I do in anything To do it -unto Thee." And in the same piece he adds — " A man who looks on glass, On it may stay his eye : Or, if he pleases, through it pass, And all the heavens espy. ' Now our complaint of Mr. Hawker is, that while... | |
| George Herbert - 1842 - 400 páginas
...a beast, To run into an action ; But still to make thee prepossessed, And give it his perfection. A man, that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ;...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... | |
| Christian Henry Bateman - 1857 - 534 páginas
...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 man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye, Or,...pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean * Price 6d. per doz. or 3s. 6d. per 100; 20 copies... | |
| 1869 - 862 páginas
...as a beagt, To run into an action ; But still to make Thee prepossest, And give it his perfection. A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or if he pleaseth, through it paas, And then the heiiv'n espy. All may of Thee partake; Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture... | |
| CALCUTTA INDIA - 1844 - 650 páginas
...small as well as great, as the quaint but delightful old poet George Herbert tells us — The man who looks on glass, On it, may stay his eye ; Or if he pleaseth, tliroujih ¡t ¡>ass, And then the Heavens espy. to see every soldier set before himself a lofty standard... | |
| 1846 - 628 páginas
...small as well as great, as the quaint but delightful old poet George Herbert tells us — " The man who looks on glass On it may stay his eye ; Or if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heavens espy." Applying these general remarks to military duties, — we desire to see every soldier... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 390 páginas
...a beast, To run into an action ; But still to make Thee prepossessed, And give it Thy perfection. A man that looks on glass On it may stay his eye ; Or,...pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of Thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean, Which, with this tincture, FOR THY SAKE, Will not... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1848 - 478 páginas
...as a medium by which their minds can be elevated to the contemplation of infinite power. The man who looks on glass On it may stay his eye, Or if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. Next morning made up in brilliancy for all the previous days which had frowned ( upon us, for we were... | |
| 1848 - 748 páginas
...being reminded of that quaint old verse of one whose ideas were formed in a better school : — " A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or if he pleasetb, thro' it pass. And the heav'n espy." But good George Herbert lived before the days of Jervais.... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 396 páginas
...a beast, To run into an action ; But still to make Thee prepossessed, And give it Thy perfection. A man that looks on glass On it may stay his eye ; Or,...pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. -All may of Thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean, Which, with this tincture, FOR THY SAKE, ^Will not... | |
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