 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
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...substituted from the MS. instead of 'rings.' The Sonnet thus concluded before Newton's ed. ' ffliereofsll Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through this world's vain mask, Content though blind, had I no other guide.' Todd. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand overpliod In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1879 - 398 pages
...or star throughout the year, Or man, or woman ; yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand, and will not bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up, and...thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplyed In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1835 - 484 pages
...seeing have forgot, Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. The conscience,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 594 pages
...prophetic faith of two or three solitary individuals, he did nevertheless " Argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bore up and steer'd Right onward." ' — Aulobiographia, vol. i. pp. 32-35. As we shall uot be so superfluous... | |
 | John Beebe - Philosophy - 1992 - 200 pages
...near poverty, he tells his contemporaries: ... I argue not against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate one jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. 28 46 We have grown unaccustomed to an integrity that grounds itself in submission, but interestingly... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...conscience, Friend, to lave lofl them overptyd In libertyes defence, my nolle task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. Content though blind, had I no better guide. PSALM I Done into Verse, 1653 Bless'dis the... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 470 pages
...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...conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defense, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. But to ask again our question:... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...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...steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask? In liberty's defense, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 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...The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied 10 In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might... | |
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