 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
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 páginas
...some girls that I could name "Were half as silent as their pictures I Winthrop 3fackworth Praed, Vf. 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, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1869 - 756 páginas
...his two sonnets on his blindness, which, however familiar, I shall make no apology for citing : — 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 ho returning chide; "... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 páginas
...Sept. 1650. 9. The " crowning mercy " of Worcester was gained 3rd Sept. 1651. 105. 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 5 To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 páginas
...largely suggestive in its main issue, to be omitted here; the sonnet which the blind poet wrote touching 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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 páginas
...largelysuggestive in its main issue, to be omitted here; the sonnet which the blind poet wrote touching 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 páginas
...the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes. FROM THJC SONNETS. 137. 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;... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 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...in my great Taskmaster's eye. ON HIS BLINDNESS.— (Milton.) When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 páginas
...or soon or slow, It shaH 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. 1 Hom. 11.14. 2 Not an arraignment of Providence, but an attempted consolation of the sufferer. The... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 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. j. MILTON 5° Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle ARMOUR rusting in his halls •'•*• on the blood... | |
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