 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
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...gold, For that which God doth touch and own. Cannot for less be told. Stanza.— Called by Herbert 'The Pulley? When God at first made man, Having a...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... | |
 | John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 pages
...languish. 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...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 - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 584 pages
...Spake laws to them, and said, that by the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. WORDSWORTH. THE PULLEY. WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass...standing by, " Let us," said he, " pour on him all we can ; Lot the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span." So strength first made away;... | |
 | Helen Gardner - Poetry - 1967 - 340 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 324 pages
...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 - History - 1988 - 606 pages
...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 - Poetry - 1991 - 500 pages
...languish. 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...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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