 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...  Retrospective Review - Page 221edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...aspire To know, Lord, teach me to admire. GEORGE HERBERT. Born, 1593 ; Died, 1632. THE GIFTS OF GOD. WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings...can : Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, So strength first made a way ; Then beauty flow'd, then wisdom, honour, pleasure : When almost all... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 pages
...our minds on aught, It is some picture on the margin wrought. W, DrummoncL CVIII. THE GIFTS OF QOD. 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, honor, pleasure. , "When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...our minds on aught, It is some picture on the margin wrought. W. Drummond. CVIII. THE GIFTS OF GOD. WHEN God at first made Man, Having a glass of blessings...riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. 80 strength first made a way, Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honor, pleasure. ; When almost all was.... | |
 | George Blagden Bacon - Sermons, American - 1868 - 206 pages
...find : When God at first made man, Having a glasse of blessings standing by ; Let us (said he) poure on him all we can : Let the world's riches, which...lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way ; Then beautie flow'd, then wisdoms, honor, pleasure: "When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | George Blagden Bacon - Sermons, American - 1868 - 206 pages
...at first made man, Having a glasse of blessings standing by ; Let us (said he) poure on him all \vo can : Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way ; Then beautie flovv'd, then wisdome, honor, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | 1874 - 564 pages
...a glass of blessings standing by ; Herbert, Let Us, said He, pour on him all We can : Tke Pv"e"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,... | |
 | George MacDonald - English literature - 1868 - 356 pages
...of his poems in which the oddity of the visual fancy is only equalled by the beauty of the result. 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 : Let the world's riches, which... | |
 | E. Wadham - English language - 1869 - 176 pages
...warmer glow, And o'er this gloomy vale of woe Diffuse a brighter ray ? — RORINSON. THE GIFTS OF GOD. When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings...riches which dispersed lie Contract into a span.' — G. HERRERT. Similar, save that the intermediate lines are four, is Mrs. Browning's piece entitled... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...never gives; But. though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. THE GIFTS OF GOD. AX 7 HEN 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,... | |
 | Hymns, Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Christian poetry - 1871 - 418 pages
...love. SCafo tfjmte in goaB part Ity rfja0tisement af tfje 3LorB : THE PULLEY. w George Herbert. HEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings...a span." So Strength first made away ; Then Beauty flowed ; then Wisdom, Honour, Pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone... | |
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