 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 psl.
...talent which is death to hide, Lodg'dwiU) me useless, though my -.mil mor< bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, liicht denied ?" 1 family ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " GoJ doth not... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1813 - 424 psl.
...blindness. , *V HEN 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,...Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chido; Doth God exact day-labor, light denied, I fondly ask: But patience to prevent That murmur soon... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 psl.
...talent which is death to bide, 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 denied i' I fondly ask : but, Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 psl.
...from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learn'd thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | 1822 - 600 psl.
...Almighty. " 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...account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact day -labour, light denied, I fondly ask > But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 psl.
...Almighty. " When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark worm 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, ana present My true account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 406 psl.
...MmtfntsS. 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...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 psl.
...the will of All is, if I have grace to use it so, [Heaven ; As ever in my great Task-master's eye. 35 ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 psl.
...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 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 - 1826 - 312 psl.
...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 not need Either man's... | |
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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... 
