 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith ecurity, his gold. Now times are chang'd, and one...poor and rich : Sons, sires, and grandsires, all w That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his... | |
 | 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, chide — " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | 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, chide ; ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?' I fondly ask : but, Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask: But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1826 - 278 pages
...talent, which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless ; tho' my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account ; lest he, returning, chide. — ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?' I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Ixulged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ';' I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...fondly ask; but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear hiti mild yoke, they serve... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...my days in this dark world and wide And that one talent which is death to hide, To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide ; — Doth God exact day-lahour, light denied, I fondly axk? hot patience to prevent ! That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodg\l with me useless, though my soul more bent, To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask; but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...I consider how my/life is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one'talent, which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...account, lest he returning, chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? * I fondly ask : But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God... | |
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WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one 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... 
