 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
 | John Milton - 1872 - 104 pages
...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 delight... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 234 pages
...gives vent to his long pent-up feelings of sorrow, indignation, and resignation. 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... | |
 | William Hanks Levy - 1872 - 548 pages
...and some of these references to his own feelings it is deemed advisable to transcribe here : — " 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 ia extinct, And all her various objects of delight... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 250 pages
...gives vent to his long pent-up feelings of sorrow, indignation, and resignation. 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... | |
 | William Hanks Levy - 1872 - 578 pages
...and so huge, that each apart Would ask a life to wail, but chief of all, O loss of sight, of then 1 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... | |
 | Sir Redmond Barry - 1872 - 52 pages
...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Milton's Paradise Lost, Book III. 1-65. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ; Blind among enemies, 0 worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age I Light, the prime work of God, to me is... | |
 | How - 1873 - 222 pages
...find him Eyeless in Ga1a, at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds, under Philistian yoke. * * * * * O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon,s or beggary, or decrepit 9 age ! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, And all her... | |
 | Religious tract society - 1873 - 216 pages
...earth, Universally crowned with highest praises. Milton. 9o SAMSON LAMENTING HIS BLINDNESS. LOSS oi 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... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 pages
...to these retired Leisure, That in true goodness takes his pleasure. — /. Milton. SAMSON AGONISTES. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! Blind among enemies, 0 worse than chains, Dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age ! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct,... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 446 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, 70 And all her various objects of... | |
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