 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 - 221. lappuselaboja - 1821Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 - 1880 - 1124 lapas
...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 - 524 lapas
...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 - 1880 - 536 lapas
...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 - 1880 - 584 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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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