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. Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature - Page 110edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm ;...here 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 pow'r... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferiour to the vilest now become Of man or worm ; the vilest...excel me ; They creep, yet see ; I, dark in light, expos'd 75 To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Ver. 68. Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...is extinct Annull'd, which might in part my grief have easV. And all hef various objects of delight Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm:...here excel me; They creep, yet see; I dark in light, expos'd 'Within doors or without, still as a fool, To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Scarce... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...is extinct And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'A. Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm:...here 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... | |
| John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...ohjects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have cas'df Inferior to the vilest now hecome Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me. They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, ahuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...extinct, 70 And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm,...me ; They creep, yet see, I dark in light exposed 75 53 strength] Ovidii Met. xiii. 363. ' Tu vires sine rdente geris.' Jortin. To daily fraud, contempt,... | |
| Abram V. Courtney - Blind - 1835 - 60 pages
...age! Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct; And ail her various objects of delight Annulled, which might, in part, my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now hecome Of man or worm. Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse,... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annulled, which might in part my grief have eased, Inferior...In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half 1 seem to live, dead more than hah0. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark,... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 436 pages
...Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, 70 And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eased, Inferior...excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light exposed 75 To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong ; Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...complain, Blind among enemies. O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age. * * * * * Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm ;...me. They creep, yet see, I dark in light exposed. Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of... | |
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