 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...wealth, that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply consiOr man or woman. Yet I argue not Against heaven's hand, or will, nor bate one jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up, and steer Right onward. What supports me dost thou ask^... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1834 - 580 pages
...by tlic prophetic faith of two or three individuals, he did, nevertheless,— ' Argue not Açainst Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bore up, and stm-'d Uight onward.' From others only do we derive our knowledge that Milton, in his... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 pages
...throughout the year, Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask? In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. The conscience, Friend,... | |
 | 1835 - 568 pages
...yet cheered only by the prophetic faith of two or three solitary individuals, he did nevertheless " Argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bore up, and steered Right onward." For himself Coleridge never desired notoriety, and indeed was averse... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 614 pages
...yet cheered only by the prophetic faith of t\vo or three solitary individuals, he did nevertheless Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bore up and steer'd Right onward." '—Aulobiographia, vol. i. pp. 32-35. As we shall not be so superfluous... | |
 | 1835 - 1190 pages
...cheered, yet cheered only by the prophetic faith of two or three solitary individuals, he did nevertheless Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bore up and steer'd Right onward." '—Autobiographia, vol. i. pp. 32-35. " Argue not As we shall not... | |
 | Robert Penn Warren - 1980 - 128 pages
...dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon; Irrevocably dark, total eclipse without the hope of day. And: Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor...or hope: but still bear up and steer Right onward. It was just as well that Davis, in the lonely years of reading and study, had stocked his mind, and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 pages
...cheered, yet cheered only by the prophetic faith of two or three solitary individuals, he did nevertheless Argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope: but still bore up and steer'd Right onward.3 From others only do we derive our knowledge that Milton, in his... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...being defended against malign powers broadens to include a new intimacy with the figure of the guide: What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defense, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought... | |
 | 1911 - 672 pages
...and the lofty determination to rise above their condition as expressed by that greatest of poets : •"Yet I argue not Against heaven's hand or will,...or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward." —MILTON SONNETT 23. Nevertheless, hear the cry of this great soul : "Thou in the lowest pit profound... | |
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cares— 10 The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays! Iph! might my name be numbered among JA theirs, P"hen gladly would I end my mortal days. (1807) 53 WILLIAM WOES3SWORTH COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER * BRIDGE... 
