 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
 | Dublin city, univ - 1857 - 692 pages
...excel me, They creep, yet sec ; I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors or without, still as a fool, In power...; 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... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 390 pages
...dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon Irrevocably dark ! Total eclipse Without all hope of day ! Oh first created beam, and thou great word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus deprived thy prime decree ! Indeed, although a royal, it was a troubled household. Circumstances in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...nobly ; pure the . and light tbe ^l ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts " U 1660-1685.] MILTON. 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,1 Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...excel me ; They creep, yet see ; I, dark in light, exposed 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 ! 0 first-created Beam, and thou great Word,... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...excell me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd 7S To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power...never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more then half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, 80 Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse Without... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1879 - 454 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 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! " Not such were the words, not such was... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...excel me : They creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power...than 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,... | |
 | Brittany (France) - 1898 - 788 pages
...excel me : They creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power...in my own -^ Scarce half I seem to live, dead more lhan half. 0 dark, dark, dark, amid thé blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total éclipse Withoul... | |
 | John Milton - Drama - 1988 - 244 pages
...mi eccelle, 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...never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more then half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse Without all... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...excel me: They creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool. In power...— Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. . . John Milton (1608-1674) English poet But who would rush at a benighted man And give him two black... | |
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