 | 1863 - 518 pages
...sign-painter. But the next verse is smeared even worse. Who does not re member the saintly man's words : " A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine." But, as Sam Weller remarked of Mr. Pickwick in a certain... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...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 : Who sweeps a room as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold ;... | |
 | Jane Eliza Leeson - 1847 - 256 pages
...Teach 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 servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine: Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." Whether, however, it might be in returning from the... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pages
...Nothing can be so mean Which, with this tincture, 'for Thy take,' Will not grow bright and clean. " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room as 'for His laws,' Makes that and th' action fine."* But full and direct knowledge can only come from... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 390 pages
...; 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 ; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1849 - 306 pages
...so done as to help it much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God. Hence George Herbert — " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." II Therefore, in the pressing or recommending of any... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 396 pages
...; 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 ; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1849 - 156 pages
...partake, Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture (for Thy sake) Will not prove 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... | |
 | Servants' hall - 1849 - 312 pages
... THE SERVANTS' HALL, EDITED BY A CLERGYMAN. 1 A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." HERBERT. FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH... | |
 | 1850 - 396 pages
...there is no action so slight or mean but it may be done to a great purpose and ennobled therefore." "'A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery divine. Who sweeps a room, as to Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." When we wake in the morning, with bodies and minds refreshed... | |
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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. 
