 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.. - Page 221edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - Religious poetry, English - 1854 - 388 pages
...FROM THE GERMAN OP DACH BY LONGFELLOW. MAN EVER RESTLESS. WHEN God at first made man, Having a fount of blessings standing by, Let us, said he, pour on...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... | |
 | George Herbert - Literature - 1855 - 560 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...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,... | |
 | George Herbert, Robert Aris Willmott - 1855 - 366 pages
...Haying 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,... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - Christian life - 1856 - 190 pages
...spring, Though in the body she her powers do show. Sir John Davies. STANZAS (EJCTITLLD BY THE AUTHOB "THE PULLEY"). When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, "Let us," said be, "pour on him all we can; Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span." So... | |
 | George Herbert - 1856 - 276 pages
...Having a glasse of blessings standing J}y ; 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,... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Christian poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...love. ' Cafee tfterefore in gooft part tfie etastisement of tfte ILatO : THE PULLEY. GEORGE HERBERT. WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings...a span." So Strength first made away ; Then Beauty flowed ; then Wisdom, Honour, Plea. sure : When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...— deep within the spirit's cell. REST. Itrtirt. God at first made man, Having a glass of blessing standing by, ' Let us,' said he, ' pour on him all...dispersed lie, Contract into a span.' So strength made first a way, Then beauty flow'd, thea wisdom, honor, pleasure, Perceiving that alone of all his... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1860 - 464 pages
...yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you." — DEUT. xii. 9. " When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, ' Let us,' He said, 'pour on him all we can, Let the world's riches which dispersed lie Contract into a span.'... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. LXXIV THE GIFTS OF GOD When God at first made Man, Having a glass of blessings...riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. Then beauty flow'd, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving... | |
 | 1861 - 792 pages
...gilded, the treasure within is always of great price. In illustration, we subjoin his poem entitled "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. Let the world's riches, which dispersed... | |
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