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" 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 42
by Abram V. Courtney - 1835 - 52 pages
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Milton, Man and Thinker

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...
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Studies in Shakespeare, Milton and Donne

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,...
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Types of Philosophic Drama

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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Test Papers in English Literature

Frederic W. Robinson - 1928 - 96 pages
...of the following passages, name the authors, and state the context — (a) O loss of sight, of thoe I most complain ! Blind among enemies ! O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age ! (6) The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more. (c) Kound many...
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Poetical Works: Volume 2. Paradise Regain'd; Samson Agonistes; Poems Upon ...

John Milton - 2000 - 412 pages
...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 then chains, Dungeon, or beggery, or decrepit age! Light the prime work of God to mee is extinct, 7°...
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 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 then chains, Dungeon, or beggery, or decrepit age! [58-69] And so on into that famous lamentation where...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...never be more than three in a family. Lawrence Housman (1865-1959) British actor, artist Blindness 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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Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible: Volume 1 ...

Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 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...
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...came also to Samson. But there are passages in the tragedy which cry with acute awareness of horror: 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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Radiation Injury: Advances in Management and Prevention

John Meyer - 1999 - 181 pages
...about the relative risks of cancer recurrence and blindness and to be involved in selecting doses. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeons, or beggary, or decrepit age! John Milton: Samson Agonistes A blind man leaned against a wall;...
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