 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 British Poets - Page 61866Full view - About this book
 | 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...noon : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day." 1 The enjoyment of sight then being so great a blessing, and the loss of it so terrible... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...pathetic lines, where he seems to paint himself, in Sampson Agonis* tes : I dark in light, expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within...still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own, Scaree half I seem to live, dead more than half, Unfortunate as he had proved in matrimony, he was... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 316 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 live, dead more than half: Odark! dark! dark! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, "Without all hopes of... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 348 pages
...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 live, dead more than half, ' Odark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon :• ' Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, ' Without... | |
 | Liverpool (England) - 1812 - 250 pages
...now become Of man or worm. The vilest here 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, " • ' ^- '1 In power of others, never in uiy own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 pages
...never in my own ; Scarce half 1 seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, nmid the bla/e of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thmi (treat word, iet t/iirt lit light^ and light was over all; I \V1iy am I thus bcreav'd thy prime... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 310 pages
...(jod, t» me's extinct, And all her various objects of delight Aiuinll'il " Still as a fool, In pow'r of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half: Odark! dark! dark! amid the Maze of noou : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...become Of man or worm ; the vilest here excel me ; They creep, yet see ; I, dark in light, expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within...in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more tlian half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all... | |
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