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... Specimens of English, Spoken, Read, and Recited - Page 121by Walter Rippmann (ed) - 1914 - 131 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...is spent Kie half my days, in this dark world and wiiit And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more b«i To...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returinng chide Doth God exact day-labor, light deny'd, I fondly ask ? but patience to prevent That... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...Is spent Ere 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 , beat...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 pages
...is spent Ere 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...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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodg'dwiU) me useless, though my -.mil mor< bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, liicht denied ?" 1 family ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " GoJ doth not... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to bide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To...returning, chide, ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied i' I fondly ask : but, Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God doth not need Either man's... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...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 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 work... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...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, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...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, 1 fondly ask ? But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...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 chide ; Doth God exact day -labour, light denied, I fondly ask > But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...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, 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... | |
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