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. John Milton: A Biography - Page 236by Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1821 - 494 pages
...and despair, the wretched sufferer, perhaps, exclaims, " Oh loss of sight, of thee 1 most complain ! Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon '. Total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm : the vilest here excel me : They creep, yet see ; I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt,...dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark ! amid the blaze of noon ' Irrecoverably dark ! total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam !... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...existence. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! — — — — — I, dark in light, expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within...; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave ; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From... | |
| 1876 - 1204 pages
...Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm ; the vilest here excel me : They creep, yet see j I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt,...still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own j Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 220 pages
...ceased, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me; They creep, yet see; I, dark in light exposed To daily fraud, contempt,...dead more 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... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 924 pages
...the prime work of God, to me's extinct, And all her various objects of delight AnnulTd.— 66. — Still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own,...dead more than half: O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day. 77. " The enjoyment of... | |
| 1823 - 468 pages
...contempt, abnse, and wrong; * Within doors, or without, still as a fool, 142 Charitable Institutions. In power of others, never in my own ; , Scarce half...seem to live, dead more than half, O dark, dark, dark t amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark I total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! Mil, TON'S... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...creep, yet see ; I, dark in light, exposed To daily frand, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within door?, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never...dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without ail hope of day ! O first created Beam, and... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...contempt, abuse, and wrong^ * Sanuon Agonista, tnat U, Samion an actor, Sanuon represented in a play. Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I stt-ш to live, dead more than half. О dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, SO Irrecoverably... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...now become Of man or worm ; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd 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 live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark,... | |
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