 Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's...  The World's Cyclopedia of Biography - Page 1161883Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...bud or blossom show'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, 5 That I to manhood am arriv'd so near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits indu'th. Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even 10 To... | |
 | Henry Taylor - Conduct of life - 1853 - 244 pages
...late spring no bud or blossom sheweth. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I towards manhood am arrived so near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, Than some more timely happy spirits indueth.' Even in his twenty-ninth year he regarded his poetical... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. 1 Cowper has very elegantly translated these sonnets. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arriv'd so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th.... | |
 | Mrs. J. S. F. Lunt - English poetry - 1853 - 144 pages
...full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom showeth, Perhaps my semblance might deceive ilie truth, That I to manhood am arrived so near; And inward ripeness dotli much less appear, Than some more timely happy spirits endu'th. Yet be it leas or more, or soon... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arriv'd so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th.... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That...measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no hud or hlossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That...measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud of blossom showeth. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That...much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endueth. Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no hud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That...appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th. Yet he it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot,... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom showeth. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That...much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endueth. Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure, even To... | |
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