| John Milton - 1855 - 564 páginas
...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...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God... | |
| Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 páginas
...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...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; " Doth God... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 páginas
...Italian fields, where still doth sway XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; Doth God exact...light denied, I fondly ask ? But Patience, to prevent WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide; And that one talent... | |
| 1856 - 864 páginas
...Of 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...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;—... | |
| Julia Kavanagh - 1856 - 394 páginas
...hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent, To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; ' Doth God...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... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 páginas
...obscure 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...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God... | |
| English poetry - 1857 - 334 páginas
...these may 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...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 páginas
...to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; Doth God...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... | |
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1857 - 436 páginas
...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide, — " Doth...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_besi. Bear... | |
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 494 páginas
...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God...denied? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts ; whft best Bear... | |
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