 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...  Anecdotes of the Blind - Page 42by Abram V. Courtney - 1835 - 52 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1916 - 242 pages
...verse. It is impossible not to recognize the personal note of anguish in the noble complaint of Samson : O ! loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind...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... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...thee implores ; For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream. [From Samson Agonistes] But, chief of all, od. Queen. And I could sing, would weeping do me good,...And never borrow any tear of thee. Enter a Gardene or decrepit age ! Light, the prime' work of God, to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1920 - 1090 pages
...ricordarsi del tempo felice, Nella miseria." His complaint of his blindness is particularly beautiful, ost lo or decrepit age ! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...730. POPE'S trans. 14 If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall ioto the ditch. Matthew. XV. 14. 19 22 or decrepit age! MILTON — Samson Agonistes. L. 67. 16 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,... | |
 | John Milton - 1923 - 332 pages
...These only, with our Law, best form a king." > FROM SAMSON AGONISTES Samson. . . . 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, TO And all her various objects of... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 162 pages
...— a passage which manifestly is a true cry of sorrow from the soul of the poet himself : — " 0 loss of sight, of th.ee 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 442 pages
...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, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age ! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight... | |
 | Denis Saurat - 1925 - 400 pages
...human, is he not also more sincere? Here is Milton blind — and, for the first time, complaining: O 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... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of English - 1925 - 260 pages
...pain. At first his utterance concerns chiefly his physical and outward state: "Samson Agonistes" 175 O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies! O worse than chains, Dungeon or beggery, or decrepit age! The first chorus, unheard by the protagonist, echoes and interprets his lament,... | |
 | Robert Metcalf Smith - 1928 - 538 pages
...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, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight... | |
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