...three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th ; Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That...to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton and other fine old poets took high ground in their views of human life, and its intimate dependence...

...*#t\o To that same lot, however mean, or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heav'n ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. " ON TIME. To be let on a clock case. FLY envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Gall on the lazy...

...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. VIII. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY, CAPTAIN-, or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance...

...as he recogni2ed the duty of self-culture, he acknowledged it but as a means, not as an end ; "A1I is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye." See also that most noble passage in his Reason for Church Government, where he describes with what...

...ev'n, To that same lot, however mean, or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heav'n ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.3 1 Letter VII. To Charles Diodati, London, September 23, 1637. - At forty he appeared ten years...

...ev'n, To that same lot, however mean, or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heav'n ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.3 1 Letter VII. To Charles Diodati, London, September 23, 1637. 2 At forty he appeared ten years...

...pressures of anxious self-assessments with the "no" of his unwavering rectitude. "All is, if I have the grace to use it so, / As ever in my great task-Master's eye." The usury of the father will be made sublime. But the burden of that Egyptian eye awaiting payment...

...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...

...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...

...if it were a freshman composition, we would not hesitate to red-pencil. Consider the last six lines: Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall...use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. We have "it" thrice: the antecedent of the first is doubtful, and so is the antecedent of the third....