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 - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 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 ! 0 first created Beam, and thou great Word,... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 372 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 ! 0 first created Beam, and thou great Word,... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 560 pages
...! Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annulled ' Still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own,...half. O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon ; Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day ! ' The enjoyment of sight then being... | |
| John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 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...; 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... | |
| Redmond Barry (Sir) - 1854 - 214 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 ! O first-created beam, and thou great Word,... | |
| Gerald Griffin - Sense organs - 1854 - 288 pages
...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 all hope...there be light!' and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night,... | |
| 1854 - 474 pages
...to me's extinct, And all her various objects of delight AnnulTd" • •"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 hope of day." " The enjoyment of sight then being... | |
| Bible stories, English - 1854 - 818 pages
...endure, I feel as Samson, bereft of sight by the hands of cruel Philistines : — " O dark, dark, dark, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope...created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light." But vain the request. That woe, that woe, that woe clings lie a curse to the vale, and the answer comes... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, sjtill as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce...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,... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - Queens - 1855 - 450 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... | |
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