 | Book - 1872 - 326 pages
...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. Milton and other fine old poets took high ground in their views of human life, and its intimate dependence... | |
 | 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 250 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. - At forty he appeared ten years... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...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. 1 This sonnet was written at Cambridge, and sent in e, letter to a friend. VIII. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS... | |
 | John Dennis - 1873 - 280 pages
...even To that same lot, however mean or high, Towards 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. 1608—1674. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve,... | |
 | Edward Carey Pike - 1873 - 144 pages
...shall whisper, "Learn to bear Calm and storm, for both prepare ; Lo! Hove thee."' CHAPTER III. All His if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. MILTON. IT was a fairly good business in the grocery and drapery, with a small trade in carpets, to... | |
 | John Morley (visct.) - 1873 - 370 pages
...refreshment to the mass of travailing men, or to invest duty with the stern ennobling quality of being done, 'if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great taskmaster's eye.' The Savoyard Vicar was consistent with the sublimity of his own conception. He meditated on the order... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...10 To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward wjiich 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. his own innate charaQter, vowed tq grf> at SONNET T. — 4. Lf,ad on propitious... | |
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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. 
