| Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1876 - 490 pages
...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. I judge that in... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...endureth. Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lose recesses of the virgin's thought ; As on the nosegay in her breas Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. ON SHAKESPEARE,... | |
| New York (State) School for the deaf, White Plains - 1877 - 872 pages
...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 havu grace to use it so, As ever iu uiy great Task-master's eye." Honorable Gentlemen... | |
| William Cosmo Monkhouse - 1878 - 224 pages
...endueth. 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 Taskmaster's eye. Note. — These... | |
| John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1878 - 876 pages
...from all reproach, and approved by all honest men," with a purpose of self-dedication "to that same lot, however mean or high, toward which time leads me, and the will of Heaven." Even in the still, calm beauty of a life such as this, we catch the sterner tones of the Puritan... | |
| Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 1988 - 284 pages
...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 Taskmaster's eye. No matter how obscure... | |
| Edward Le Comte - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...lines: 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. We have "it" thrice:... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure ev'n, To that same will not fight; And who dies fighting has increase. (1. 7—8) 2 The h Heav'n; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. (1. 1—14) FF;... | |
| Masson - Poetry - 1995 - 228 pages
...endu'th. 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. JOHN MILTON Sonnet... | |
| William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...do: 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 Taskmaster's eye. These lines express,... | |
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