 | John Franklin Jameson - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 470 pages
...words with which Milton, in the second sonnet to Cyriack Skinner, speaks of the loss of his eyes: 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... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...appear Of sun or moon or star throughout the year, Or man or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heav'n'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? In liberty's defense, my noble task,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...thus with self-pity. His words were plainly a reflection of Skinner's attitude. As for his own: 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. He can be brief about it — even whimsical, with imagery borrowed... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - History - 1997 - 344 pages
...of blemish or of spot; Bereft of light thir seeing have forgot, . . . Yet I argue not Against heavns 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... | |
 | Catherine Maxwell - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 292 pages
...or, to quote Milton in a moving sonnet which Arnold perhaps echoes, a period when I argue not Agamst heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still hear up and steer Right onward. ('To Mr Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness', 6-9)-' Milton, the blind... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...orbs doth sight appear Of sun or moon or star throughout the year, Or man or woman. Yet I argue not0 Against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer0 Right onward. What supports me dost thou ask? The conscience, friend, to have lost... | |
 | Andrew Milner - Canon (Literature) - 2005 - 356 pages
...appear Of sun or moon or star throughout the year, Of man or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heav'n'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... | |
 | Joseph Gerson Mayer - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 278 pages
...commonplace; his tone is hearty, not reflective. This is the public persona. Yet 1 argue not Against heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.... The expressions "bate a jot," "bear up," seem to roll off the tongue... | |
 | Chris Ackerley, S. E. Gontarski - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 722 pages
..."Fifty two point two eight . . ." (34—35). Compare Milton's second sonnet to Cyriack Skinner: "Yet I argue not / Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot / Of heart and hope." 24. die Merde hat mich wieder: compare Goethe's "die Erde hat mich wieder" ("the earth has... | |
 | Richard Gorham, Orison Swett Marden - Philosophy - 2006 - 53 pages
...sorrow when he produced his greatest works. Milton wrote, "Who best can suffer, best can do." "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." - Milton The Rev. William H. Milburn, lost his sight when he was only... | |
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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. 
