 | H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...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...account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God exact day -labor, light denied? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, —... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...consider how mv light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent wlu'ch is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my...present My true account, lest He returning chide; '• Doth CJod exact day-labour, light denied/' I fondly ask ? but Patience to prevent Thai murmur,... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...welcome joy Once more unto my heart ; For since I 've found thee, lovely youth, We never more will part." SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. — Milton. WHEN I consider...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...Almighty. " When I consider how mj 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...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 h is... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1854 - 374 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1868 - 868 pages
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 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...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...account, lest he, returning, chide : " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...iv. 18. 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...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... | |
 | 1899 - 852 pages
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 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, I And that one talent3 which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chiJe ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
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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... 
