 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 Spectator ... - Page 3691803Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...expos'd 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...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;" Why am... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...and despair, the wretched sufferer, perhaps, exclaims, " Oh loss of sight, of thee 1 most complain ! Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon '. Total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 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...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 ;" Why... | |
 | Arminianism - 1876 - 1204 pages
...as a fool, In power of others, never in my own j Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! " I cannot deny myself the pleasure of quoting in connection with this the famous sonnet to his friend... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 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...Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created Beam, and thon great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all;" Why am I... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 924 pages
...me's extinct, And all her various objects of delight AnnulTd.— 66. — Still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to...noon : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day. 77. " The enjoyment of sight, then, being so great a blessing, and the loss of it so... | |
 | 1823 - 468 pages
...abnse, and wrong; * Within doors, or without, still as a fool, 142 Charitable Institutions. In power of others, never in my own ; , Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half, O dark, dark, dark t amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark I total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! Mil, TON'S... | |
 | Frank Sayers - 1823 - 480 pages
...loves, are for ever excluded ; helpless he sits, exposed to penury, to injury, to contumely — " — dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day." But even this prospect, cheerless as it is, will be illuminated by the approach of Charity ; she takes... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...in light expos'd 75 To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, '.-•-. Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In pow'r of others, never in my own...half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, :•'. - to Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! ' : O first created beam, and... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...exposed To daily frand, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within door?, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to...of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without ail hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over... | |
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