...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...to manhood am arrived so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear Than some more timely-happy spirits endu'th. Yet be it less, or more, or soon,...use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.' 1 " By this I believe yon may well repent of having made mention at all of this matter; for, if I have...

...arrived so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear Than some more timely-happy spirits cndu'th. Yet be it less, or more, or soon, or slow. It shall...use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.' l " By this I believe yon may well repent of having made mention at all of this matter; for, if I have...

...soon, or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or hifb, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven. All is, if I have grace to use it so, Aï ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.' 1 " By this I believe yon may well repent of having made mention...

...manhood am arriv'd so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th. Yet be it less or more, or soon or...use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye." He wrote several poems as college exercises, which he afterwards thought worthy of publication. One...

...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. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADT, that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hast shunned the broad...