To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 160by John Milton - 1834Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...Within doors, or without, ftill as a fool, In pow'r of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I feem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark,...amid the blaze of noon, So Irrecoverably; dark, total eclipfe Without all hope of day ! O firft created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...excel me, They ereep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd 75 To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power...dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first ereated beam, and thou great word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 314 pages
...Ood, to me's extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annul I'd " Still as a fool. In pow'r of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to...half: O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day." « The enjoyment of sight then being... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...of God, to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd Still as a fool, In pow'r of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to...half; O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrevocably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day ! ' The enjoyment of sight then being so... | |
| 1806 - 468 pages
...expoftula lions populations and wifhes, as reafon too often fubmitf to learn from defpair : O firft created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; - Why am I thus berear'd thy prime decree £ The fun to me is datk, And filent as the moon, When (he deferts die night,... | |
| 1807 - 216 pages
...excel me : They creep, yet see ; I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong ; Within doors, or without, still as a fool. In power...half. O dark, dark, dark ! amid the blaze of noon. Irrecoverably dark ! total eclipse, Without all hope of day I MILTON'S SAMPSON. Thus dependant for... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power...half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, 80 Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day I O first created beam, and thou great... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 318 pages
...God, to me's extinet, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd « - Still as a fool, In pow'r of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to...than half: O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of n0011 : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day." ' The enjoyment of sight then... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 310 pages
...God, to me's extinct* And all her various objects of delight Annull'd •' Still as a fool. In pow'r of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to...dead more than half: O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the bluze of noon : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day." ' The enjoyment of sight... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...excel me; They creep, yet see; I, dark in light, expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power...half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word,... | |
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