 | 1854 - 456 pages
...Milton. 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...account, lest he returning chide), " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, I And that one talent3 which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chiJe ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...these may grow A hundred-fold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. xrv. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | 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...chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask: But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...Milton. 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...account, lest he returning chide), " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...Milton. 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...account, lest he returning chide), " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | 1856 - 864 pages
...and tell, Of things invisible to mortal sight." We cannot retrain from quoting also his two exquisite sonnets on his blindness: "When I consider how my...death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul mor • bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning. chide;—... | |
 | Reading book - 1856 - 352 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days,* in this dark world and wide, And that one talentt which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...consider how my light is spent Kre half my diiys, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent 3 which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide j " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied V 1 fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...BLINDNESS.1 WHEN I consider2 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, returmng, chide ; — "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly3 ask : but Patience, to prevent... | |
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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... 
