 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
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1831 - 432 pages
...* * * * * * * # # * * * * * # * * * * * * * * * MILTON. PART III. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will — nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still...steer Right onward — what supports me, dost thou ask 1 The conscience, Friend ! MILTON'S SONNET TO CYRIAC SKINNER. I. LONG years have flown ! — and where... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1831 - 554 pages
...whose suffrage is worth the canvass. Meanwhile, let detraction work as it may, I shall stand firm — " Nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up...steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ' Tis conscience, still o'erpaid in liberty's defence, My noble task." — MILTON. SM 1,1801. CONTENTS... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1831 - 422 pages
...flouting skeptic and to the angry foe he could always say, ' 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 was supported by his trust in Heaven, and the consciousness that his cause was the cause of God.... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1831 - 58 pages
...are true to others, and not wanting to themselves j who, — possessing the hardihood -" to bate no jot " Of heart or hope : but still bear up, and steer " Right onward ; " pushing their way through " evil report and " good report ; " — blend unanimity with energy ;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...here. Aline is truly a life of faith, not of sight; and thus I never, as Milton says— .' bate one jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up, and steer Right onward.' "I like not the conelusion of your last letter ; it is an ill compliment to call that mean, which the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 pages
...Mine ie truly a life of faith, not o$ and thus I never, as Milton says — 'T ;»iwM i .. , 'bate one jot , Of heart or hope ; but still bear up, and steer Right onward.' " I like not the conclusion of your last letter ; it is an ill compliment to call that mean, which... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, s 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...supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, t' have lost them overIn liberty's defence, my noble task, [plied 8 And what the Swede intends] So... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 pages
...**1 | Yet I | argue not | *1 A- | gainst | Heaven's | hand or | will, | **\ nor | bate a | jot "1| 1 Of | heart or | hope ; ^ | ^ but | still | bear | up and | steer | Right | onward. | *1 *I | What sup- ( ports me | T"1 | dost thou | ask ? | ^ '"1 I '"1 The | conscience, | friend **|... | |
 | 1833 - 240 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...side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. 125 JOHN MILTON. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 422 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...side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide." ALEXANDER MORUS took the field again, and published... | |
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