 | John Milton - 1861 - 534 Seiten
...O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | Selections - 1862 - 348 Seiten
...these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. MILTON. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest He, returning, chide. " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, — "... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 Seiten
...grow A hundred fold, who having learn'd thy way Early may fly the Babylonian woe. — Milton. ON Hid 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... | |
 | William George T. Barter - 1863 - 302 Seiten
...and he could write that also. Where does religion more purely breathe than in that affecting sonnet on his blindness ? — When I consider how my light...account, lest He, returning, chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, liglit denied ? I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies : —... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 Seiten
...from these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies : — "God... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 Seiten
...the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes. FROM THE SONNETS. 141. SONNET ON HIS OWN 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 Seiten
...think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored, and sorrows end. W. SHAKESPEARE 112 ON HIS OWN BLINDNESS WHEN I consider how my light is spent ere...true account, lest He, returning, chide ; Doth God exaci day-labour, light denied?' I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent that murmur, soon replies :... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 372 Seiten
...Chapel in the capital of Piedmont, and under the auspices of a king of the Duke of Savoy's house. IV. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience. to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 Seiten
...sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. SONNET, ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest He, returning, chide : " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 Seiten
...sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. SONNET, ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...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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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,... 
