 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 Without...  The Spectator - Page 104by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810Full view - About this book
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...bring its own reward, for blessed is he who succoreth the orphan and the widow. LILIAS'S TRIAL. " 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! 0 first created Beam, and Thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all... | |
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 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...exposed 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. . . John Milton (1608-1674) English poet But who would rush at a benighted man And give him two black... | |
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