 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 Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...exposed To daily frand, 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. Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Wilhin 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.. Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 live, dead more than half. Oh dark, dark, dark,1 amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...?5 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. 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze, of noon, 80 Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, • Without all... | |
 | Daniel Parish Kidder - 1847 - 278 pages
...of human life, and has been feelingly alluded to by a poet, who was himself deprived of sight : " 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse, Without the hope of day ! The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon When she deserts the night." — MILTON.... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1879 - 456 pages
...borrowed the words which Milton puts in the mouth of the blind captive, — the strong man of Israel ? " Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O...Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day 1 " Not such were the words, not such was the spirit in which this once strong man, now blind and bound... | |
 | David Creamer - Hymns - 1848 - 488 pages
...Samson : — "But chief of all, O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among enemies. * * # 0 dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably...dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day !" The author wrote the last line of the same hymn thus — "My sold shall on thy bosom fall." HYMN 128. "... | |
 | 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...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 ? " Let there be... | |
 | 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...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... | |
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