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" 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 Without... "
The British Essayists - Page 74
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Poetry for schools

Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...light, expos'd Within doors, or witheut, still as a fool, To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, In pow'r of others, never in my own ; Scarce half...noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? "...
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The Standard elocutionist; and gem-book of British authors, ed. by A. Cunningham

A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...exposed 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...noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first-created beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...exposed 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...more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of moon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day! SAMSON AGONISTES. O first created...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...abuse, and wrong ; Within doors or without, still, as a fool, In power of others, never iu my own. 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, ' Let there be light,' and light was over...
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Tales of Kirkbeck; or, The parish in the fells, by the author of 'Lives of ...

Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1850 - 376 pages
...bring its own reward, for blessed is he who succoreth the orphan and the widow. LILIAS'S TRIAL. " 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! 0 first created Beam, and Thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all...
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Leisure Hours in a Country Parsonage; Or Strictures on Men, Manners, and Books

John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 pages
...old man! Happy for him that he had stored his mind with treasures of knowledge, that when he was— " Dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon— Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day," he was not left to vacuity, but could— " Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary mov'd...
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Readings in science and literature

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...see : I dark, in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong; Within doors or without, still as a fool In pow'r of others, never in my own...Scarce half I seem to live ; dead more than half. Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of...
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John Milton: A Biography

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...exposed 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...dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the hlaze of noon ! Irrevocably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day!" Like every other work of...
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Literary Reminiscences: From The Autobiography of an English Opium ..., Volume 1

Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1851 - 386 pages
...of these disappointments, I could not but repeat to myself parts of that divine chorus, — ' Oh ! dark, dark, dark ! Amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse,' &c. &c. The next opportunity I had of seeing Coleridge was at the lakes, in the winter of 1809, and...
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Literary Reminiscences: Literary novitiate. Sir H. Davy; Mr. Godwin; Mrs ...

Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1851 - 378 pages
...of these disappointments, T could not but repeat to myself parts of that divine chorus, — ' Oh ! dark, dark, dark ! Amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse,' &c. Sec. The next opportunity I had of seeing Coleridge was at the lakes, in the winter of 1809, and...
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