 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...  The Retrospective Review - Página 2211821Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...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 - 1880 - 536 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 584 páginas
...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 - 1967 - 340 páginas
...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 - 1986 - 324 páginas
...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 - 1988 - 606 páginas
...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 - 1991 - 500 páginas
...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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