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Page 381
... Dalila's third attack had abandoned the past to move into a defense of her present service to Philistia , she now extends a last false comfort for the present to Samson . Like Manoa , she offers him " ransom " into an invalid's old age ...
... Dalila's third attack had abandoned the past to move into a defense of her present service to Philistia , she now extends a last false comfort for the present to Samson . Like Manoa , she offers him " ransom " into an invalid's old age ...
Page 383
... Dalila merely insists , somewhat tautologically , that the Eve in mankind is dangerous . Myth has long since demonstrated that the Adam in Samson was disastrous , and asks that a compact of union exclude disunion and distrust . ( If ...
... Dalila merely insists , somewhat tautologically , that the Eve in mankind is dangerous . Myth has long since demonstrated that the Adam in Samson was disastrous , and asks that a compact of union exclude disunion and distrust . ( If ...
Page 388
... Dalila's companion argument from false duty . Look- ing above history to the Mover of history , Samson merely urges his mission the more powerfully : I was no private but a person rais'd With strength sufficient and command from Heav'n ...
... Dalila's companion argument from false duty . Look- ing above history to the Mover of history , Samson merely urges his mission the more powerfully : I was no private but a person rais'd With strength sufficient and command from Heav'n ...
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Introduction | 1 |
and Il Penseroso Arcades and At a Solemn | 21 |
Full Consort in On the Morning of Christs Nativity | 27 |
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