 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
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 páginas
...repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. J. Milton ON HIS 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,—... | |
 | Selections - 1862 - 348 páginas
...these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. MILTON. 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.... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 páginas
...grow A hundred fold, who having learn'd thy way Early may fly the Babylonian woe. — Milton. ON Hid 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 ;... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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 Task-master's eye." He concludes with the jocular suggestion that, as he had wearied his correspondent by the tediousness... | |
 | William George T. Barter - 1863 - 302 páginas
...and he could write that also. Where does religion more purely breathe than in that affecting sonnet on his blindness ? — When I consider how my light...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 páginas
...think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored, and sorrows end. W. SHAKESPEARE 112 ON HIS OWN 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 Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 páginas
...the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes. FROM THE SONNETS. 141. SONNET ON HIS OWN 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 páginas
...soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even 10 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. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN, or Colonel, or Knight in arms ! Whose chance on... | |
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 páginas
...soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measures 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. PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF G-OD. " Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 páginas
...hundredfold, who, having learned thy way Early, may fly the Babylonian woe. Milton. SONNET ON MILTON'S BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...death to hide,* Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve there with my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide:... | |
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