 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 Seiten
...arrived so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endueth. Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall...use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye. in. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN, or Colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
 | Charles Augustus Ward - 1855 - 208 Seiten
...excellent whole, and the two closing lines have a sanctifying spirit very characteristic of Milton : — " All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great task Master's eye." Milton's sublime confidence in himself as a man amongst men, is as remarkable as... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 Seiten
...circumstances." Milton, in one of his sonnets, uses a slightly different word, but to the same purpose: — " All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Ta.k-master's eye." Contented with report hear only in Heaven ; For wonderful indeed are all his works,... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 Seiten
...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 Seiten
...arrived so near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endueth. Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall...use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye." The fruits of what I may call the rural period of Milton's life were r LYCIDAS. 123 those two descriptive... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 Seiten
...near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th. Yet he it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still...use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. VIII. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 Seiten
...shock of a sudden recognition, setting a severe Calvinist view of life against these early trifles: All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great task Masters eye. The meaning of these lines, I think, is clarified if we take the word "grace" in... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 284 Seiten
...all about their capabilities, and if they had known the lines of John Milton they would have said — Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall...to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. No matter how obscure James and Judas may appear to have been, they were not solitary, for they had... | |
 | Leland Ryken - 1990 - 306 Seiten
...date. But the consolation expressed in the aphorism with which the poem concludes is typically Puritan: All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great task-Master's eye. The most plausible interpretation of the lines is this: "All that matters is that I have the grace... | |
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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. 
