 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...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...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 his... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...to hide, Lodged with me useless, though mysoul 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 ; who best Bear... | |
 | Solomon Piggott - 1824 - 422 pages
...bide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul were bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide — " Doth...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 his... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...though my soul more bent, To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he return and 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, or his own gifts ; who best... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1826 - 278 pages
...to hide, Lodg'd with me useless ; tho' 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 best Bear... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...hide, Ixulged 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 ; who best Bear... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...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 ; who best Jiear his... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more To serve therewith my Maker, and present [bent My true account, lest he returning chide ; " Doth God...light denied," I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent a That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | 1833 - 240 pages
...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 Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...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 w*ork, or his own gifts; who best Bear his... | |
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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... 
