 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 - 1871 - 530 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. III. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN, or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
 | Book - Birthdays - 1872 - 326 pages
...three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th ; Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That...to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton and other fine old poets took high ground in their views of human life, and its intimate dependence... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 568 pages
...*#t\o To that same lot, however mean, or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heav'n ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. " ON TIME. To be let on a clock case. FLY envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Gall on the lazy... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1872 - 614 pages
...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. VIII. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY, CAPTAIN-, or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...as he recogni2ed the duty of self-culture, he acknowledged it but as a means, not as an end ; "A1I is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye." See also that most noble passage in his Reason for Church Government, where he describes with what... | |
 | John Milton - Poets, English - 1872 - 234 pages
...ev'n, To that same lot, however mean, or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heav'n ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.3 1 Letter VII. To Charles Diodati, London, September 23, 1637. 2 At forty he appeared ten years... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...pressures of anxious self-assessments with the "no" of his unwavering rectitude. "All is, if I have the grace to use it so, / As ever in my great task-Master's eye." The usury of the father will be made sublime. But the burden of that Egyptian eye awaiting payment... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...shock of a sudden recognition, setting a severe Calvinist view of life against these early trifles: All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great task Masters eye. The meaning of these lines, I think, is clarified if we take the word "grace" in... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 1988 - 284 pages
...all about their capabilities, and if they had known the lines of John Milton they would have said — Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall...to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. No matter how obscure James and Judas may appear to have been, they were not solitary, for they had... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...if it were a freshman composition, we would not hesitate to red-pencil. Consider the last six lines: Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall...use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. We have "it" thrice: the antecedent of the first is doubtful, and so is the antecedent of the third.... | |
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