ON HIS 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,... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Seite 620von John Milton - 1842 - 767 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1867 - 878 Seiten
...how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world und wide And that one talent, which 'tis death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, aud present (My true account, lest he returning chide. Doth God exact day-labour, light denied... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 Seiten
...half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my .soul more bent To serve therewith...returning, chide; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask: But Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need " Either man's... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 Seiten
...half my days, in this dark world arid wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith...returning, chide; " Doth God exact day-labour, light dented ?" I fondly ask: But Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need " Either... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 564 Seiten
...this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, LodgM with me useless, thougli my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and...chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?'? I fondly ask: but Patience, to preveut That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need " Either... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1813 - 424 Seiten
...blindness. , *V 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,...Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chido; Doth God exact day-labor, light denied, I fondly ask: But patience to prevent That murmur soon... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 234 Seiten
...world and wide, And that one talent, which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though uiy soul more bent To serve therewith my maker, and present...account, lest he, returning, chide; Doth God exact day labour, liyht jdeuy'd ? 1 fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur,soon replies, God doth... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 Seiten
...from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learn'd thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. xix. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best... | |
 | 1822 - 592 Seiten
...is spent And that pile talent which is death to hide, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To...returning chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied, I fondly ask ? But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Kither man's work... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 Seiten
...the least acceptable offering to the Almighty. Ere half my days, in this dark worm 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, ana present My true account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied,... | |
 | 1822 - 600 Seiten
...days, in this dark world and wide, " When I consider how my light is spent And that one talent which ¡»death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, Itst he returning chide ; I fondly ask > But patience, to prevent Doth God exact day-labour,... | |
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