 CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I...  The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 336by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806Full view - About this book
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pages
...sun, or moon, or star throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still...side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide.' Sonnet XXII. We see Milton's magnanimity in... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Christian literature, English - 1828 - 60 pages
...sun, or moon, or star throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still...thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overply'd In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still...thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overply'd In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; hut still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports...thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overply'd In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 364 pages
...remarkably distinguished the great Florentine, he could truly say, • I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward t. * " In Firenze certamente egli apprese dagli Scritti e dalle Massime del Galileo invalorite gia... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pages
...throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Ot heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask f The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overply'd In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which... | |
 | John Milton - Latin letters, Medieval and modern - 1829 - 130 pages
...know not whether I could ap2 He attributed his blindness in part to his exertions in this dispute: ' What supports me dost thou ask ? ' The conscience,...side; ' This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask ' Content, though blind, had I no better guide.' Sonnet to Skinner. ply myself to a more... | |
 | James Rennie - Elephants - 1829 - 440 pages
...uncivilized, or the crosses of the social lifc are to be overcome, to meet the evil, whatever it be, — " Nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward;" — this is in itself a triumph ; and the world can give nothing better than those moments when a man... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 856 pages
...therefore ; give your cause to Heaven. /d. I argue not Against Heaven's hand, or will ; nor bate one jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onwards. iKltoit. You might, with every jot as much justice, hang me 'ip because I'm old, as beat me... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still...side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. SONNET. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY, that... | |
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