 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my .soul more , beat 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; .whprbest **... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...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 To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God... | |
 | 1822 - 592 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... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 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 Bearhismild... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 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...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
...the will of All is, if I have grace to use it so, [Heaven ; As ever in my great Task-master's eye. 35 ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though mysoul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Solomon Piggott - Suicide - 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... | |
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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 5 My true account,... 
