 I should (said he) Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich...  Daily readings for a year [ed.] by E. Spooner - Página 26por Elizabeth Spooner - 1880 - 315 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...to the American strand. Tlu Church Militant. Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. Man. If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. TIu Pullty. Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it ? The Size. 1 And he that does one fault at... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...alone, of all His treasure, Rest in the bottom lay. 'For if I should,1 said He, ' Bestow this jewel also Matin Hymn. I cannot ope mine eyes But Thou art ready there to catch, My mourning soul and sacrifice,... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1876 - 186 páginas
...of all his treasure, Rest in the bottom lay. " For if I should," said he, " Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts, instead of...him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast." XI. — AFFLICTION TESTS, AND GIVES ASSURANCE. Paradoxical though it be, only that man is at rest who... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 páginas
...alone, of all his treasure, Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should (said he) Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of...at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness Hay toss him to my breast. GEORGE HHRDERT. G96 697 ENIGMA.* THE LETTER " H." 'T WAS whispered in heaven,... | |
 | Gary Almy, Carol Tharp Almy, Jerry B. Jenkins - 1994 - 292 páginas
...alone of all his treasure, Rest in the bottom lay. "For if I should," said he, "Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of...him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast." George Herbert was a seventeenth-century Welsh poet who gave up prestige and wealth to become a modest... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1995 - 420 páginas
...the soul to felicity. This restlessness and discontent is thrust upon him to draw his sould to God: If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. ['The Pulley', 11. 19-20] The lyrics of the 'Temple' lead not to pessimism but to hope. Looking at... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1995 - 628 páginas
...from the depths of the heart where it is rooted by nature, and would fill the mind with its venom.' 'If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast.'6 Ennui, like Natural Selection, accounted for change but failed to account for direction of... | |
 | Fulton John Sheen - 1951 - 228 páginas
...pleasure on man, but kept back Himself: For if I should (said He) Bestow this jewel also on creatures, He would adore My gifts instead of Me, And rest in...him not, yet weariness May toss him to My Breast. It takes some effort to grow in this love, for as the art of painting is cultivated by painting, and... | |
 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 páginas
...alone of all his treasure 10 Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should (said he) Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature: 15 So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness: Let... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 páginas
...alone of all His treasure Rest in the bottom lay. "For if I should "said He, "Bestow this jewel also on My creature, He would adore My gifts instead of...him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast." COMPOSED AROUND 1630; PUBLISHED 1 6 3 3 . Here is a little poem that amounts to a sermon on the question,... | |
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