 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.  The Methodist Quarterly Review - Page 5851866Full view - About this book
 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1847 - 480 pages
...manhood taught himself to believe lay before him — " To that same lot, however mean or high, Towards which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven, All is,...use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye." Milton's father had a house at Horton, and thither the young poet retired when he left the University.... | |
 | 384 pages
...slow, " It shall be still in strictest measure 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 yreat Task-master's eye." All his works were undertaken in this spirit, And it was this too which enabled... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall...use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye. AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET, WILLIAM SHAKSPBARE. The labour of an age in piled stones... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me and the will of Heaven. All is, as I have grace to use it so, As ever in my Great Task-master's eye. You see then, my young friends, that he calmly and firmly resolved to live as ever in the sight and... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Towards which time leads me and the will of Heaven. All is,...use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye. In the beginning of the year 1629, Milton took his bachelor's degree, and, in due course, proceeded... | |
 | Marmion Wilard Savage - 1852 - 300 pages
...arrived so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, Than some more timely happy spirits eudu'th. Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall...use it so, As ever in my great Task.master's eye." He read a great mass of divinity for a few weeks following the reading of that sonnet; he plunged deep... | |
 | Clara Harrington (fict.name.) - 1852 - 962 pages
...me to the earth. But the talent, the instrument is nothing, it is the uses we make of it:— " And be it less or more, or soon or slow — It shall be...use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye." " Into his hands I yield myself. If He, my great Task-Master, has assigned me my work, whether of doing... | |
 | Marmion Wilme Savage - English fiction - 1852 - 468 pages
...soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, 8* Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven...use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye." He read a great mass of divinity for a few weeks following the reading of that sonnet; he plunged deep... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward whieh Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if...use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye." But that poem which principally at this period, the college era of his life, ennobles his name and... | |
 | 1852 - 634 pages
...so little, his consolation is, that the power of achievement was still indubitably within him — " All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever, in my great Task-Master's eye." And what was that special mode of activity to which Milton, still in the bloom and seed-time of his... | |
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