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 - Page 34edited by - 1876 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
| Marmion Wilard Savage - 1852 - 300 pages
...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." He read a great mass of divinity for a few weeks following the reading of that sonnet; he plunged deep... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - 770 pages
...passions, and you are freer than the Parthian king. — Abridged from TAYLOR'S ' Holy Living.' 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 ;... | |
| H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...sounds In full harmonic numbers joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven. 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 ;... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 380 pages
...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 ASSAULT1 WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN, or Colonel, or Knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...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 ASSAULT1 WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN, or Colonel, or Knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1854 - 388 pages
...full harmonic numbers joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven. 8* (89) 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 ;... | |
| George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now. I'll speak to her, And she shall be mv queen. SONNETS. 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... | |
| Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, [Lord! Hath melted like snow in the glance of the 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... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...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. in. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN, or Colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
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