 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
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 314 pages
...of God, to me's extinct* And all her various objects of delight Annull'd " Still as a fool, In pow'r of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to...half O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day." 1 The enjoyment of sight then being... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 314 pages
...of God, to me's extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd -Still »sa fool, In pow'r of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to...half : O dark! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day." 1 The enjoyment of sight then being... | |
 | 1810 - 462 pages
...by such expostulations postulations and wishes, as reason too ofien submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was o.ver all ; Why Mil I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark, And Silent as the moon, When she deserts... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 370 pages
...and concluded by such expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why I'm I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ! The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...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 ; Scarce half I seem to...more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noun , ' 80 Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day .' 9 first created Beam, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...abnse and wrong, Within doors or withont, still as a fool, In pow'r of others, never in my own ; Scaree half I seem to live, dead more than half, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, 80 Irrecov'rably dark, total eclipse Withont all hope of day ' O first created beam, and thon great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 pages
...and concluded by such expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am 1 thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...excel me ; They creep, yet see ; I, dark in light, expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, 0 tlian half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...by such expostulations postulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus berea/d thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
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