...all my miseries— So many, and so huge, that each apart Would ask a life to wail. But, chief of all, O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among enemies! O worse than chains, fLight, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, 70 Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! And all her...

...which never fails to characterize a blind captive. The remarkable lines are as follows : Chief of all, O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among...enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight...

...reach to know : Suffices that to me strength is my bane, And proves the source of all my miseries ; O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among enemies, O worse then chains, Dungeon, or beggery, or decrepit age ! O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably...

...323. 4 A blind prophet-king of Thrace. Ovid, Mit. vii. 3. III. SAMSON AQONISTES But chief of all, 0 loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among...enemies ! O worse than chains, Dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age ! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, 70 And all her various objects of...

...all my miseries ; So many, and so huge, that each apart Would ask a life to wail, but chief of all, O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among enemies, O worse then chains, Dungeon, or beggery, or decrepit age ! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, 70...

...all my miseries, So many and so huge that each apart 65 Would ask a life to wail. But, chief of all, O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among...enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age ! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, 70 And all her various objects of...

...life. His soliloquy on his blindness in " Samson Agonistes " is poignant with melancholy : — " 0 loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among...enemies ! O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age ! Light, the prime work of God, to me 's extinct, And all her various objects of delight...

...all my miseries ; So many, and so huge, that each apart Would ask a life to wail, but chief of all, 0 loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggery, or decrepit age ! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects...

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...under Philistine yoke. JOHN MILTON (1608-1674). [SAMSON ON HIS BLINDNESS.] (From "Samson Agonistes.") O LOSS of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among...enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight...