 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 470 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning,...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 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning,...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 - 410 pages
...though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, retarning, chide, ' Doth God exact day-labour, 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 - 1062 pages
...Blindness. When 1 consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that o teach their frugal virtues to his heir ; To prove...are chang'd, and one poetic itch Has seiz'd the co day labour, light denied, I fondly ask? but patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 502 pages
...from these may grow A hundred fold, who having learn'd thy way. Karly may fly the Babylonian woe. O\ HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent...that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with roe useless, though m/eoul more bent ' г, To serve therewith my Maker, and present , 5 My true account,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...talent, which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though mysoul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning,...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... | |
 | Solomon Piggott - 1824 - 422 pages
...talent, which is death to bide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul were bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning,...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 pages
...talent which is death to hide. Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning...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 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...talent. Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present 5 My true account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact...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 10 Bear.... | |
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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 mild yoke, they serve him best: his state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean... 
