 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.  The Methodist Quarterly Review - Page 5851866Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...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,... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...arrived so near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endueth. Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th. Yet he it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still...use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. VIII. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...to manhood am arrived so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear Than some more timely-happy spirits endu'th. Yet be it less, or more, or soon,...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 - 714 pages
...arrived so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear Than some more timely-happy spirits cndu'th. Yet be it less, or more, or soon, or slow. It shall...use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.' l " 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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...manhood am arriv'd so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th. Yet be it less or more, or soon or...use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye." He wrote several poems as college exercises, which he afterwards thought worthy of publication. One... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...arrived so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endueth. Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall...use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADT, that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hast shunned the broad... | |
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