| Susan J. Wolfson - 2001 - 324 pages
...Haydon in mid-April, "the idle fever of two months more without any fruit" (2.55). His epigraph cites the lilies of the field - "They toil not, neither do they spin" (Matthew 6.2.8). As in "O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind," a poem Keats wrote out in a... | |
| Carlo Caballero - 2004 - 352 pages
...Unlike leading motives or cyclical themes, these Faurean repetitions have no technical function - like the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin. Such gratuity is an important criterion in Marcel's typology of homogeneity. Nectoux has dealt with... | |
| Eliza Frances Andrews - 2002 - 220 pages
...fare as well as the richest and grandest in the land. No one can tell how they manage it, but like the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. And the very women who lead this sort... | |
| William Morris - 2002 - 800 pages
...not know me at first sight. kGod hath . . . the beast: probably a paraphrase of Luke 12:27 ("Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these"), applied here to animals rather than plants.... | |
| Kenneth Mills, Anthony Grafton - 2003 - 340 pages
...shall put on. ... Behold the fowls of the air; neither do they sow nor reap nor gather. . . . Consider the lilies of the field. . . . they toil not neither do they spin. . . . seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto... | |
| Howard Wayne Morgan - 2003 - 510 pages
...Kasson of Iowa interjected, "And the lilies?" McKinley took the cue: "Yes, the lilies. They are like 'the lilies of the field . . . ; they toil not, neither do they spin."' He was ill at ease when he started but the speech ended as one of his best efforts. He had announced... | |
| Titus Burckhardt - 2003 - 366 pages
...which can be interpreted metaphysically, then there is nothing that separates us from you." "Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." These... | |
| Shelly Reuben - 2004 - 313 pages
...been." "Did she garden?" "Good heavens, no." Alistair looked appalled by the thought. "Faith was as the lilies of the field. 'They toil not, neither do they spin.'" "Well, what did she do?" "She took very, very good care of Dortimer," Beatrice insisted. "She carried... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 465 pages
...Christ was a great lover of the beautiful especially in nature. Was it not He who said : " Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these"? Back of the lily and the rose, back of... | |
| John Reid - 2005 - 153 pages
...that the weariness may pass And leave you merry, take this glass. Ah! lazy lily hand, more bless'd Behold the lilies of the field, They toil not neither do they spin; (So doth the ancient text begin, — Not of such rest as one of these Can share.) Another rest and... | |
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