 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, lest he returning...  Complete Rhetoric - Page 324by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...BLINDNESS When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that se day-labour, light denied ? I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1835 - 402 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...talent, which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless ; though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd?" I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies : — "... | |
 | 1836 - 424 pages
...•'• When 1 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...returning chide ; '• • '' • " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?"' • 'Lfondly ask; but Patience, to prevent . murmur, noon replies, God... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 400 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | 1836 - 650 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? I fondly ask — but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies —... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...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 were bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide : ' Doth... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one lalent, which is death to hide, Lodged with me, useless, though my soul were bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide : ' Doth... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pages
...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. LESSON CXXX. Sonnet, on his Blindness, by Milton, WHEN I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days,...denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bears... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 304 pages
...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...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he return and chide. " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent... | |
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