 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1893 - 702 pages
...unconquerable will," which can exclaim with Milton, in the midst of the most trying disappointments, — " I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right on ward!" He seemed like a vessel, not wrecked and shattered on the rocks,... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1840 - 370 pages
...idle orbs doth sight appear, Of 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 bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1840 - 1020 pages
...idle orbs doth sight appear, Of 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 bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to hare lost... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...their idle orbs doth sight appear Of 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 bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost tliou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...their idle orbs doth sight appear Of 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 bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...their idle orbs doth sight appear Of 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 bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Tet 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. What supports mo, dost thou ask T The conscience, friond, to hare lost... | |
 | Guy Bryan Schott - Commencement ceremonies - 1841 - 62 pages
...struggles. Misfortune may lay a heavy hand on some of you, before a year rolls round ; — yet — " argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and tteer Right onward!" The hour is past ; and I close with the last — the fondest wish... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...Paradise Lost. In his beautiful sonnet to Syriac Skinner he thus reverts to his blindness : — -" Yet 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. — What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 444 pages
...idle orbs doth sight appear Of 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 bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost... | |
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Or man, or woman. Yet 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. 
