 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...  Memoir and Remains - Seite 51von John Miller Gray - 1895Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1845 - 752 Seiten
...me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see ; And what I do in anything To do it as for Thee. " A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass, And thus the heaven espy. " All may of Thee partake, Nothing can be so mean Which, with this tincture,... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1835 - 402 Seiten
...a beast, To run into an action ; But still to make thee prepossess'd, And give it his perfection. A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heav'n espy All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture, for thy sake,... | |
 | George Herbert - 1838 - 406 Seiten
...as a beast, 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 pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture (for thy sake)... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 400 Seiten
...a beast, To run into an action ; But still to make thee prepossess'd, And give it his perfection. A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye; Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heav'n espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture, for thy sake,... | |
 | 1844 - 606 Seiten
...as a beast, 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 pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture (for thy sake)... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 596 Seiten
...Religious Ceremonies ' (to. p. 340) seems a paraphrase of a stanza in Herbert's poem, The Elixir : — ' A man that looks on glass On it may stay his eye ; Or if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the Heaven espy.' The six lines, too, ' A Sober Statement of Human Life,' (ib. p. 28) have been placed... | |
 | George Herbert - 1838 - 420 Seiten
...as a beast, 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 pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of thee partake.: Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture (for thy sake)... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1838 - 478 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1840 - 694 Seiten
...a beast, To run into an action ; But still to make thee prepossess'd. And give it his perfection. A man that looks on glass. On it may stay his eye ; Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heav'n espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture, for thy sake,... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1840 - 632 Seiten
...wait the hour when soon, One broken wreath again shall twine But in immortal bloom. ALICE DESMOND. A MAN that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye : Or, if be pleaseth, though it pass, And all the heaven espy. All may of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean,... | |
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