 | John Milton - 1853 - 554 pàgines
...or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Towards which time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it BO, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. The pious language in which, at a later period of his life,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pàgines
...or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven...use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye. in. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN, or Colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pàgines
...circumstances." Milton, in one of his sonnets, uses a slightly different word, but to the same purpose: — " All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Ta.k-master's eye." Contented with report hear only in Heaven ; For wonderful indeed are all his works,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Ward - 1855 - 208 pàgines
...excellent whole, and the two closing lines have a sanctifying spirit very characteristic of Milton : — " All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great task Master's eye." Milton's sublime confidence in himself as a man amongst men, is as remarkable as... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 pàgines
...so little, his consolation is, that the power of achievement was still indubitably within him — " All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever, in my great Task-Master's eye." And what was that special mode of activity to which Milton, still in the bloom and seed-time of his... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pàgines
...so little, his consolation is, that the power of achievement was still indubitably within him — " All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever, in my great Task-Master's eye." And what was that special mode of activity to which Milton, still in the bloom and seed-time of his... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pàgines
...soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure, even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me and the will of Heaven...use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye." The fruits of what I may call the rural period of Milton's life were r LYCIDAS. 123 those two descriptive... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pàgines
...soon, or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven....use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.' 1 " By this I believe yon may well repent of having made mention at all of this matter; for, if I have... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pàgines
...soon, or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or hifb, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven. All is, if I have grace to use it so, Aï ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.' 1 " By this I believe yon may well repent of having made mention... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 600 pàgines
...1042, not quite a year after these pleasant gratulations, Milton wrote the following noble sonnet : — 'WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. ' Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in amis, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize. If deed of liouour did thee ever please, Guard... | |
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Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. 
