| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 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...jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Uight onward. What supports me, dost thou ask? RLINDNESS. 121 The conscience Mend, to have lost them... | |
| Unitarianism - 1854 - 482 pages
...so fair. How nobly he speaks of the loss in the familiar sonnet to his friend Cyriac Skinner! — " I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate...hope ; but still bear up and steer / Eight onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overplicd In liberty's... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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...jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask 1 The conscience, Friend, to have lost them ovcrplied... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - Old age - 1854 - 252 pages
...columns on whose Corinthian capital, lingers the srnile of Heaven as a never-setting sun ? CHAPTER XII. " Argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate...jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up, and steer Right onward. MILTON. How beautiful is the setting sun. Long lines of golden rays tremble along the... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Zephyr, the spring western wind. 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...jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up, and steer Bight onward. What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 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...jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The eonseienee, friend, to have lost them overplied... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 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...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 them overplied... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...less renowned than war. xix. They also serve who only stand and wait. Sonnets — Continued. xxii. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate...jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward. Of which all Europe rings from side to side. xxiii. But O, as to embrace me she inclined,... | |
| George Wilson - Knowledge, Theory of - 1856 - 146 pages
...their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or mail or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate...jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward." Contrast with Milton an equally great genius, Beethoven the musician, who in the prime... | |
| William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1857 - 308 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...or hope ; but still bear up and steer Eight onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's... | |
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