 | Annabel Patterson - History - 1997 - 344 pages
...Against heavns hand or will, nor bate a 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 overply'd In liberties defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. These four... | |
 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 332 pages
...related to his more intimate history as Milton's political involvements were to his personal life: What supports me dost thou ask? The conscience, friend, to have lost [my sight] overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side.... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer0 Right onward. What supports me dost thou ask? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied0 In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought... | |
 | Andrew Milner - Canon (Literature) - 2005 - 356 pages
...Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a 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 In liberty's defense, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me through... | |
 | Joseph Gerson Mayer - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 278 pages
...Cyriack's imagined question: What supports the speaker in his blindness? Lines 9-12 give one answer: What supports me. dost thou ask? The conscience. Friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defense, my noble task. Of which all Europe talks from side to side. He is supported by satisfaction... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 588 pages
...216]. 20 [Cf. Revelation i:3, 22:10.] 21 [Milton, To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness, 11. 9-13: "What supports me, dost thou ask? The Conscience, Friend, to have lost them [sc. eyes] over ply'd / In Liberties Defence, my noble task; / Of which all Europe rings from side... | |
 | John S. Mackenzie - Philosophy - 2005 - 493 pages
...is in this sense that Milton says, referring to the loss of his eyes, " What supports me dost thon ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side." Bat even here there is perhaps a certain implication... | |
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This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. 
