 On His Blindness When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account,...  Songs of Three Centuries - Página 34editado por - 1876 - 352 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 396 páginas
...these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learned the way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. ON UlS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning chide ;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 páginas
...in this disrespectful to the " sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy'* child," of his juvenile Term ?] SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide ;... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 páginas
...themes Before the Judge, who thenceforth bid thee rest And drink thy fill of pure, immortal streams. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; "Doth... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 páginas
...soon, or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even, To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which time leads me, and the will of heaven...use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. ON THE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT. AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bone.i Lie scattered on the... | |
 | 1866 - 662 páginas
...or slow, . It shall be still in strictest measure even • To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven...use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye." By leave from his father and a due supply of money, (Milton had yet earned nothing in life to subsist... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 páginas
...or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven...use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye. VIII. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN, or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 páginas
...these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. III. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide... | |
 | 1897 - 918 páginas
...following is frequently quoted by some, who would be unable to state whence the quotation was drawn:— ON HIS BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is...is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide.... | |
 | 1875 - 860 páginas
...or soon or slow. It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven....to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. This revelation of the high resolve of a youth of three-and-twenty is explicit enough in itself, but... | |
 | 822 páginas
...sufficiently elastic to Bnggest all necessary limits and guarantees. — Saturday Review. MILTON ON ms BLINDNESS : — When I consider how my light is spent...is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide ;... | |
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