 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
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...friends, more sure than day or night — Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death? SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE. 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 Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...Praise be thy new employ ; And while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy. JAUES MONTGOMERY. wi' the miller, Thou sat as lang as thou had siller ; That soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest lie returning chide ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 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. III. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN, or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
 | Robert Jones Griffiths - 1872 - 130 pages
...infinitely more beautiful, — only passing from a good land to the better one beyond ! LESSON II.— MILTON 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 the returning chide ;... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 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. MILTON. ON HIS BLINDNESS. "\ \ 7HEN I consider how my light is spent * * Ere half my days, in) this... | |
 | 1960 - 262 pages
...you there. Whate'er your place, it is Not yours alone, but His Who set you there. — John Oxenham 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, "Doth... | |
 | 1909 - 502 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. POEMS WRITTEN AT HORTON 1632-1638 L'ALLEGRO (1633) HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 284 pages
...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. No matter how obscure James and Judas may appear to have been, they were not solitary, for they had... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 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. We have "it" thrice: the antecedent of the first is doubtful, and so is the antecedent of the third.... | |
 | Masson - 1995 - 228 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. JOHN MILTON Sonnet to the River Loddon Ah! what a weary race my feet have run, Since first I trod thy... | |
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