| British poets - 1822 - 272 sider
...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...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
| 1822 - 592 sider
...Almighty. " When t 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...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 sider
...ISUnBiusa. 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 Bearhismild... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 470 sider
...ISHntmess. 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...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 sider
...Almighty. " 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...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 sider
...Almighty. " 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...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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 sider
...I consider how my/life 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...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... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest he returning chide: "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth... | |
| 1837 - 682 sider
...unavoidable misfortunes of existence. What eep and serene contentment breathes in this sonnet upon his blindness : When I consider how my light is spent...chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied 1" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
| 1837 - 684 sider
...unavoidable misfortunes of existence. What deep and serene contentment breathes in this sonnet upon his blindness : When I consider how my light is spent...returning chide; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
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