 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, lest...  Lives of Milton and Addison - Page 201by Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 209 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...wisdom that hare it ; and those that are fool•, la: them use their talents. Twelfth Night, i. 5. that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide. MILTON. Sonnets. • ye proud Heart-swoln, wliile in your pride ye contemplate Your talents, power,... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 330 pages
..." When I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that ono talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless,...present My true account, lest he returning, chide ; 1 Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?' I fondly ask ; but patience to prevent That murmur soon... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent8 which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide; IJpth God exact day-labor, light denied?" 1 fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent v,t mu™ur. soon... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 308 pages
..." When I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that ono talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless,...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returniDg, chide; ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?' I fondly ask j but patience to prevent... | |
 | Christian classics, James Hamilton - 1859 - 786 pages
...Slmtoness. 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...true account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God exaet day-labour, light denied '! " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent3 which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My trne account, lest He, returning, chide; " Doth God... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...eonsider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent, whieh is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present o My true aeeount, lest He, returning, ehide ; ' Doth... | |
 | William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - 1860 - 384 pages
...strain : " When I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide; And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning ehide : ' Doth God exact day -labour, light denied ? ' I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...an {jis HEN 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 u 162 THE PET NAME. My true account, lest he returning... | |
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