 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...Almighty. " When I consider how mj 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...light 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 Bear h is... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...iv. 18. 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...account, lest he returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask: but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...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 spent Ere...account, lest He, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask: But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...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 spent Ere...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 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...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 Bear his... | |
 | American poetry - 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...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 Bear his... | |
 | 1856 - 864 pages
...things invisible to mortal sight." We cannot retrain from quoting also his two exquisite sonnets on his blindness: "When I consider how my light is spent...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...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...And wild? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits V SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is spent Ero...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...grow A hundred fold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. HI. — ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
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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... 
