 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 - Page 221edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | George Herbert - English literature - 1874 - 408 pages
...PULLEY. When God at first made man, Having a glasse of blessings standing by, ' Let us,' said He, ' poure on him all we can; Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span.' 5 So strength first made a way, Then beautie flow'd, then wisdome, honour, pleasure ; When almost all... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...where to bide. Who would be more, Swelling through store, Forfeit their Paradise by their pride.. EEST. WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings...lie, Contract into a span." So strength first made a way ; Then beauty flowed; then wisdom, honor, pleasure : When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...that by the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. WORDSWORTH. THE PULLEY. WHEN God at fi:-st made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by,...a span." So strength first made away; Then beauty flowed ; then wisdom, honor, pleasrre. When almost all was out, God made a stay; Perceiving that alone... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...Spake laws to them, and said, thnt by the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. WORDSWORTIL THE PULLEY. WHEN God at first made man. Having a glass...can ; Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contraet into a span." So strength first made away; Then beanty flowed; then wisdom, honor, pleasr.re.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...where to hide. Who would be more, Swelling through store, Forfeit their Paradise by their pride. REST. WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, " Let us," said'he, "pour on him all we can : Let theworld's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...Spake laws to them, and said, that by the soul Only, the Natious shall be great and free. WORDSWOBTH. THE PULLEY. WHEN God at first made man. Having a glass of blessings standing ngaj by, " Let us," said he, " pour on him all we can ; Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie,... | |
 | Baptists - 1875 - 444 pages
...Growing rank against the wall, For it may be that their shadow Hides the heaviest wheat of .-ill. Wires God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, "Let ns," said he, " pour on him all we can, Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...where to bide. Who would he more, Swelling through store. Forfeit their Paradise by their pride. REST. WHEN God at first made man. Having a glass of blessings...lie, Contract into a span." So strength first made a way ; Then beauty flowed ; then wisdom, honor, pleasure : When altnost all was out, God madeastay.... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...of love and sweetness, Bearing onward man's reluctant soul. ADELAIDE A. PROCTER. The Gifts of God. WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings...lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way ; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honor, pleasure ; When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...shadows in the cloud ; Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate. ALFRED TENNYSON. THE GIFTS OF GOD. WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings...lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way ; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honor, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay,... | |
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